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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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Penny Tray wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:47 pm
John Donnelly wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:49 pm
Penny Tray wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:47 am Like to a fading flower in May,
Which Gardner cannot save,
So Beauty must, sometime decay
And drop into the grave.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE UNFORTUANTE MISS BURNS 1791
Hi PT,

I wonder if this is the same Miss Burns from your post of 4 september.

JD.

JD,

It is indeed but she was not a relative of the poet. She was a well-known Edinburgh prostitute who was eventually banished from Edinburgh. Burns openly deplored this harshly puritanical treatment of his namesake.
He seems to have been well acquainted with the lady. :wink:

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Re: A wee bit o' Burns

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‘The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,
Delusion, oppressions, and murderous wars,
We dare na weel say’t, but we ken wha’s to blame –
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame!’

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Aft hae I rov’d by bonie Doon,
To see the woodbine twine,
And ilka bird sang o’ its luve,
And sae did I o’ mine.

*YE FLOWERY BANKS
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Gracie, thou art a man of worth,
O, be thou Dean for ever!
May he be damn’d to Hell henceforth,
Who faults thy weight or measure!

*EPIGRAM ON MR. JAMES GRACIE
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Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies,
Now gay with the broad setting sun!
Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties –
Our race of existence is run!

*THE SONG OF DEATH
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‘The bridegroom may forget the bride
Was made his wedded wife yestreen;
The monarch may forget the crown
That on his head an hour has been;
The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I’ll remember thee, Glencairn,
And a’ that thou has done for me!’

*LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLENCAIRN
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While Autumn, benefactor kind,
By Tweed erects his aged head,
And sees, with self-approving mind,
Each creature on his bounty fed.

*ADDRESS TO THE SHADE OF THOMSON
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‘To whom hae much, more shall be given,’
Is every great man’s faith;
But he, the helpless, needful wretch,
Shall lose the mite he hath.

*ON SOME COMMEMORATIONS OF THOMSON
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Each eye, it cheers, when she appears,
Like Phoebus in the morning,
When past the shower, and every flower
The garden is adorning.

*LOVELY DAVIES
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Thus wily Reynard, by degrees,
In kennel listening at his ease,
Suck’d in a mighty stock of knowledge,
As much as some folks at a college;
Knew Britain’s rights and constitution,
Her aggrandisement, diminution;
How Fortune wrought us good from evil:
Let no man, then, despise the Devil,
And who should say: ‘I ne’er can need him,’
Since we to scoundrels owe our Freedom.

*ON GLENRIDDELL’S FOX BREAKING HIS CHAIN
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Your News and Review, Sir,
I’ve read through and through, Sir,
With little admiring or blaming:
The Papers are barren
Of home news or foreign –
No murders or rapes worth the naming.

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To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!

*SAW YE BONIE LESLEY
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