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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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