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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!
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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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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 wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
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There's some are fou o' love divine There's some are fou o' brandy.
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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools If honest nature made you fools.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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Never generally means at no point in time. The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced
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Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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