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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Robbie Burns
Rabbie Burns
Scotland's favourite son
Ploughman Poet
Robden of Solway Firth
Bard of Ayrshire
The Bard
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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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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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Now's the day and now's the hour.
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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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