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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
Farmer
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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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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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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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Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
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To step aside is human.
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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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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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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