- Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
- Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
- Never met -- or never parted,
- We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
ROBERT BURNS, Ae Fond Kiss
Freedom and Whisky gang thegither!
ROBERT BURNS, The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
- Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
- That's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS, First Epistle to John Lapraik
- To make a happy fire-side clime
- To weans and wife,
- That's the true pathos and sublime
- Of human life.
ROBERT BURNS, To Dr. Blacklock
- But pleasures are like poppies spread--
- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
- Or like the snow falls in the river--
- A moment white -- then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS, Tam o' Shanter
- The rank is but the guinea's stamp;
- The man's the gowd for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS, For a' that and a' that
- The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
- Gang aft a-gley.
- A fig for those by law protected!
- Liberty's a glorious feast!
- Courts for cowards were erected,
- Churches built to please the priest.
ROBERT BURNS, The Jolly Beggars
- Or were I in the wildest waste,
- Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
- The desert were a paradise,
- If thou wert there, if thou wert there.
ROBERT BURNS, O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
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