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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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