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WHILE new ca'd kye rowte at the stake	A
An' pownies reek in pleugh or braik	A
This hour on e'enin's edge I take	A
To own I'm debtor	B
To honest hearted auld Lapraik	A
For his kind letter	B
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Forjesket sair with weary legs	C
Rattlin the corn out owre the rigs	D
Or dealing thro' amang the naigs	D
Their ten hours' bite	E
My awkart Muse sair pleads and begs	D
I would na write	E
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The tapetless ramfeezl'd hizzie	D
She's saft at best an' something lazy	D
Quo' she Ye ken we've been sae busy	D
This month an' mair	F
That trowth my head is grown right dizzie	D
An' something sair	F
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Her dowff excuses pat me mad	G
Conscience says I ye thowless jade	H
I'll write an' that a hearty blaud	H
This vera night	H
So dinna ye affront your trade	H
But rhyme it right	H
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Shall bauld Lapraik the king o' hearts	D
Tho' mankind were a pack o' cartes	D
Roose you sae weel for your deserts	D
In terms sae friendly	D
Yet ye'll neglect to shaw your parts	D
An' thank him kindly	D
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Sae I gat paper in a blink	A
An' down gaed stumpie in the ink	A
Quoth I Before I sleep a wink	A
I vow I'll close it	H
An' if ye winna mak it clink	A
By Jove I'll prose it	H
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Sae I've begun to scrawl but whether	F
In rhyme or prose or baith thegither	F
Or some hotch potch that's rightly neither	F
Let time mak proof	I
But I shall scribble down some blether	F
Just clean aff loof	I
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My worthy friend ne'er grudge an' carp	J
Tho' fortune use you hard an' sharp	J
Come kittle up your moorland harp	J
Wi' gleesome touch	K
Ne'er mind how Fortune waft and warp	L
She's but a bitch	M
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She 's gien me mony a jirt an' fleg	A
Sin' I could striddle owre a rig	A
But by the L d tho' I should beg	A
Wi' lyart pow	N
I'll laugh an' sing an' shake my leg	A
As lang's I dow	N
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Now comes the sax an' twentieth simmer	F
I've seen the bud upon the timmer	F
Still persecuted by the limmer	F
Frae year to year	F
But yet despite the kittle kimmer	F
I Rob am here	F
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Do ye envy the city gent	H
Behint a kist to lie an' sklent	H
Or pursue proud big wi' cent per cent	H
An' muckle wame	O
In some bit brugh to represent	H
A bailie's name	O
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Or is't the paughty feudal thane	P
Wi' ruffl'd sark an' glancing cane	P
Wha thinks himsel nae sheep shank bane	P
But lordly stalks	D
While caps and bonnets aff are taen	P
As by he walks	D
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O Thou wha gies us each guid gift	H
Gie me o' wit an' sense a lift	H
Then turn me if thou please adrift	H
Thro' Scotland wide	H
Wi' cits nor lairds I wadna shift	H
In a' their pride	H
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Were this the charter of our state	H
On pain o' hell be rich an' great	H
Damnation then would be our fate	H
Beyond remead	H
But thanks to heaven that's no the gate	H
We learn our creed	H
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For thus the royal mandate ran	P
When first the human race began	P
The social friendly honest man	P
Whate'er he be	D
'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan	P
And none but he	D
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O mandate glorious and divine	P
The ragged followers o' the Nine	P
Poor thoughtless devils yet may shine	P
In glorious light	H
While sordid sons o' Mammon's line	P
Are dark as night	H
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Tho' here they scrape an' squeeze an' growl	Q
Their worthless nievefu' of a soul	R
May in some future carcase howl	Q
The forest's fright	H
Or in some day detesting owl	Q
May shun the light	H
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Then may Lapraik and Burns arise	D
To reach their native kindred skies	D
And sing their pleasures hopes an' joys	D
In some mild sphere	F
Still closer knit in friendship's ties	D
Each passing year	F

Robert Burns

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