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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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Penny Tray wrote: Tue Dec 25, 2018 10:15 am Good one Hughie. I had it set aside as a possible 'last post' in this topic come January - back to the drawing board :lol: .
If it's fitting at that time why not repeat it. :)
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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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As I said, "It's a good one," and certainly nothing would be lost by a further posting.

And by the way, "Enjoy the whisky."
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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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O, cauld blaws the e’ein’ blast,
O Boreas o’er the pool
An’ dawin’, it is dreary,
When birks are bare at Yule.

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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For me! Before a Monarch’s face,
Ev’n there I winna flatter;
For neither pension, post, nor place,
Am I your humble debtor.

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We’ve faults and failins – granted clearly!
We’re frail, backsliding mortals merely.

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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Then from his Lordship I shall learn,
Henceforth to meet with unconcern
One rank as weel’s another;
Nae honest, worthy man need care
To meet with noble youthfu’ Daer,
For he but meets a brother.

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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See stern Oppression’s iron grip,
Or mad Ambition’s gory hand,
Sending, like blood-hounds from the slip,
Woe, Want, and Murder o’er the land!

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So may the Auld Year gang out moanin’
To see the New come laden, groanin’,
Wi’ doubly plenty o’er the loanin’
To thee and thine:
Domestic peace and comfort crownin’
To hale design!

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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May this be my New Year wish to all at the TTT's.

John.
So may the Auld Year gang out moanin’
To see the New come laden, groanin’,
Wi’ doubly plenty o’er the loanin’
To thee and thine:
Domestic peace and comfort crownin’
To hale design!
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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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This day Time winds th’ exhausted chain,
To run the twelvemonth’s length again:
I see the old, bald-pated fellow,
With ardent eyes, complexion sallow,
Adjust the unimpair’d machine
To wheel the equal, dull routine.

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A Guid New-Year I wish thee Maggie!
Hae, there’s a rip to thy auld baggie:
Tho thou’s howe-backit now, an’ knaggie,
I’ve seen the day
Thou could hae gaen like onie staggie,
Out-owre the lay.

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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For lords or kings I dinna mourn;
E’en let them die – for that they’re born;
But O, prodigious to reflect,
A Towmont, sirs, is gane to wreck!
O Eighty-eight, in thy sma’ space
What dire events hae taken place!
Of what enjoyments thou hast reft us!
In what a pickle thou has left us!

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