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'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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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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Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.

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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

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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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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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Life is but a day at most.

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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

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