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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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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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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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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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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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Nae man can tether time or tide The hour approachesTam maun ride That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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