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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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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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Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.
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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us
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Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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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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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
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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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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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