If it's fitting at that time why not repeat it.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 .
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."
And by the way, "Enjoy the whisky."
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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.
*BONIE PEG-A-RAMSAY
O Boreas o’er the pool
An’ dawin’, it is dreary,
When birks are bare at Yule.
*BONIE PEG-A-RAMSAY
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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.
*A DREAM
Ev’n there I winna flatter;
For neither pension, post, nor place,
Am I your humble debtor.
*A DREAM
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We’ve faults and failins – granted clearly!
We’re frail, backsliding mortals merely.
*EPISTLE TO MAJOR LOGAN
We’re frail, backsliding mortals merely.
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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.
*ON MEETING WITH LORD DAER
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.
*ON MEETING WITH LORD DAER
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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!
*A WINTER NIGHT
Or mad Ambition’s gory hand,
Sending, like blood-hounds from the slip,
Woe, Want, and Murder o’er the land!
*A WINTER NIGHT
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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!
*TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL
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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May this be my New Year wish to all at the TTT's.
John.
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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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.
*NEW YEAR’S DAY
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.
*THE AULD FARMER’S NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE 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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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!
*ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788
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!
*ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788
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