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April st	A
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While new ca'd ky rowte at the stake	B
An' pownies reek in pleugh or braik	B
This hour on e'enin's edge I take	B
To own I'm debtor	C
To honest hearted auld Lapraik	B
For his kind letter	C
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Forjesket sair wi' weary legs	D
Rattlin' the corn out owre the rigs	E
Or dealing thro' amang the naigs	E
Their ten hours' bite	F
My awkart muse sair pleads and begs	E
I would na write	F
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The tapetless ramfeezl'd hizzie	E
She's saft at best and something lazy	E
Quo' she Ye ken we've been sae busy	E
This month' an' mair	G
That trouth my head is grown right dizzie	E
An' something sair	G
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Her dowff excuses pat me mad	H
Conscience says I ye thowless jad	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	E
Tho' mankind were a pack o' cartes	E
Roose you sae weel for your deserts	E
In terms sae friendly	E
Yet ye'll neglect to show your parts	E
An' thank him kindly	E
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Sae I gat paper in a blink	B
An' down gaed stumpie in the ink	B
Quoth I Before I sleep a wink	B
I vow I'll close it	H
An' if ye winna mak it clink	B
By Jove I'll prose it	H
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Sae I've begun to scrawl but whether	G
In rhyme or prose or baith thegither	G
Or some hotch potch that's rightly neither	G
Let time mak proof	I
But I shall scribble down some blether	G
Just clean aff loof	I
	-
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 an' warp	L
She's but a b tch	K
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She's gien me monie a jirt an' fleg	B
Sin' I could striddle owre a rig	B
But by the L d tho' I should beg	B
Wi' lyart pow	M
I'll laugh an' sing an' shake my leg	B
As lang's I dow	M
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Now comes the sax an' twentieth simmer	G
I've seen the bud upo' the timmer	G
Still persecuted by the limmer	G
Frae year to year	G
But yet despite the kittle kimmer	G
I Rob am here	G
	-
Do ye envy the city gent	H
Behint a kist to lie and sklent	H
Or purse proud big wi' cent per cent	H
And muckle wame	N
In some bit brugh to represent	H
A bailie's name	N
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Or is't the paughty feudal Thane	O
Wi' ruffl'd sark an' glancing cane	O
Wha thinks himsel nae sheep shank bane	O
But lordly stalks	E
While caps and bonnets aff are taen	O
As by he walks	E
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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 Heav'n that's no the gate	H
We learn our creed	H
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For thus the royal mandate ran	O
When first the human race began	O
The social friendly honest man	O
Whate'er he be	E
'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan	O
An' none but he	E
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O mandate glorious and divine	O
The followers o' the ragged Nine	O
Poor thoughtless devils yet may shine	O
In glorious light	H
While sordid sons o' Mammon's line	O
Are dark as night	H
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Tho' here they scrape an' squeeze an' growl	P
Their worthless nievfu' of a soul	Q
May in some future carcase howl	P
The forest's fright	H
Or in some day detesting owl	P
May shun the light	H
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Then may Lapraik and Burns arise	E
To reach their native kindred skies	E
And sing their pleasures hopes an' joys	E
In some mild sphere	G
Still closer knit in friendship's ties	E
Each passing year	G

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