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Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:51 am
by Penny Tray
I see the spreading leaves and flowers,
I hear the wild birds singing;
But pleasures they hae nane for me,
While care my heart is wringing.
*CRAIGIEBURN WOOD
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:34 am
by Penny Tray
See yonder rosebud rich in dew,
Amang its native briers sae coy,
How sune it tines its scent and hue,
When pu’d and worn as a toy!
*I DO CONFESS THOU ART SAE FAIR
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:48 am
by Penny Tray
Wit and Grace and Love and Beauty
In ae constellation shine!
To adore thee is my duty,
Goddess o’ this soul o' mine!
*BONIE WEE THING
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:12 am
by Penny Tray
I hae a penny to spend,
There – thanks to naebody,
I hae nothing to lend,
I’ll borrow frae naebody.
*I HAE A WIFE O’ MY AIN
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:38 am
by Penny Tray
Not the bee upon the blossom
In the pride o’ sinny noon,
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon,
Not the Poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e’e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gies to me.
*FAIR ELIZA
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:21 am
by Penny Tray
She has an e’e (she has but ane),
The cat has twa the very colour,
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
A clapper-tongue wad deave a miller;
A whiskin’ beard about her mou,
Her nose and chin they threaten ither:
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her.
*WILLIE WASTLE
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:14 am
by Penny Tray
O, would, or I had seen the day,
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay.
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I’ll mak this declaration: -
‘We’re bought and sold for English gold’ –
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
*SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:39 am
by Penny Tray
Syne let us pray, auld England may
Sure plant this far-famed tree, man;
And blythe we’ll sing, and hail the day
That gave us liberty, man.
*THE TREE OF LIBERTY
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:23 am
by Penny Tray
‘I hae been a Devil the feck o’ my life
(Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi’ thyme!),
But ne’er was in Hell till I met wi’ a wife’
(And the thyme it is wither’d, and rue is in prime!).
*KELLYBURN BRAES
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:46 am
by Penny Tray
The flowery Spring leads sunny Summer,
The yellow Autumn presses near;
Then in his turn comes gloomy Winter,
Till smiling Spring again appear.
*MY BONIE BELL
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:55 am
by Penny Tray
Wi’ monie a vow and lock’d embrace
Our parting was fu’ tender;
And, pledging aft to meet again,
We tore oursels asunder.
*HIGHLAND MARY
Re: A wee bit o' Burns
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:32 am
by Penny Tray
There’s threesome reels, there’s foursome reels,
There’s hornpipes and strathspeys, man,
But the ae best dance e’er cam to the land
Was the Deil’s awa wi’ th’ Exciseman.
*THE DEIL’S AWA WI’ TH’ EXCISEMAN