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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Their hearts 'i' stane, gin night, are gane, As sail as ony flesh is. There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy; And monie jobs that day begin May end in houghmagandy Some ither day. ON A SCOTCH BARD: ].NK TO THE WEST INIUKH. A' Ye wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never think, Come, mourn wi' me Our billie's gien us a' a jink,1 And owre the sea. Lament him a' ye rantin core, Wha dearly like a random-splore, ftoiio Nae mair he'll join the merry roar In social key; For now he's ta'en anither shore, And owre the sea 1 Our brother has eluded as all. Auld cantie Kyle may weepers wear, cheerful And stain them wi' the saut, saut tear; 'Twill mak her poor auld heart, I fear, In flinders flee; splinters He was her laureate monie a year, That's owre the sea. He saw misfortune's cauld nor-west Lang mustering up a bitter blast; A jillet brak his heart at last, jut HI may she be So, took a berth afore the mast, And owre the sea. To tremble under Fortune's cummock, rod On scarce a bellyfu' o' drummock, meal and water Wi' his proud, independent stomach, Could ill agree; So row't his hurdies in a hammock, roiled?loins And owre the sea. He ne'er was gien to great misguiding, Yet coin his pouches wadna bide in; Wi' him it ne'er was under hiding ? He dealt it free: The Muse was a' that he took pride in, That's owre the sea. Jamaica bodies, use him weel, And hap him in a cozie biel: wrap?snug shelterYe'll find him aye a dainty chiel, And fou o' glee; He wadna wronged the very deil, That's owre the sea. Fareweel, my rhyme-composing billie comrade Tour native soil was right ill-willie; But may ye flourish like a ...
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