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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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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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