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Health: A Poem. By Dr. Cotton.
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Chapbook #16 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Quoted on title-page: "O Health! "Without thy cheerful active energy "No rapture sells the breast, no Poet sings, "No more the maids of Helicon delight, "Com e then with me, O Goddess, heavenly gay! "Begin the song; and let it sweetly flow, "And let it wisely teach thy wholesome laws: "How best the fickle fabric to support "Of mortal man; in healthful body how "A healthful mind the longest to maintain." Armstong.
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[1796?] per National Library of Scotland
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8 pages
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Poetry
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a>
ESTC#: T131005
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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poetry
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Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: poetry
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid
Musical Instrument: harp(s)
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Lenora. A Celebrated Ballad, Translated from the German, of Burger.
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Chapbook #23 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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[1796?] per English Short Title Catalogue
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8 pages
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Ballads and songs
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<a title="University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks" href="http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/chapbooks/search/">University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks </a>
ESTC#: T130991
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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English
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
# of Woodcuts: 0
Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs
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Description of a Battle. By Robert Brown, Corporal in the Coldstream Guards.
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Chapbook #24 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Quoted on title-page:" I hate that Drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round, To me it talks of ravag'd plains, And burning towns, and ruin'd swains, And mangled limbs, and dying groans, And Widow's tears, and Orphan's moans, And all that Misery's hand bestows. To swell the catalogue of human woes."
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[1797?] per National Library of Scotland
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8 pages
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War
Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland </a>
ESTC#: T32343
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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poetry
# of Woodcuts: 1
Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: poetry
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid
Musical Instrument: fiddle(s)
Musical Instrument: flute
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Cumin and Margaret. A Ballad. Never before published. To which are added, A Soliloquy Upon my Last Sixpence. And The Rose.
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A Soliloquy Upon my Last Sixpence.
The Rose.
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Chapbook #25 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Quoted on title-page: "In Scotia beauteous Marg'ret dwelt; A noble Baron was her fire; Her charms the hardest hearts did melt; With love the coldest breasts did fire."
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[1797?] per National Library of Scotland
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8 pages
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Ballads and songs
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland </a>
ESTC#: N40489
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs
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Poor Mary, The Maid of the Inn. To which is added, Neighbour Dick.
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The maid of the inn.
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Chapbook #26 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Quoted on title-page: "Who is she, the poor maniac, whose wildly-fixed eyes Seem a heart overcharged to express? She weeps not, yet often and deeply she sighs, She never complains, but her silence implies The composure of settled distress."
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[1797?] per National Library of Scotland
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8 pages
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Ballads and songs
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland </a>
ESTC#: T44048
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
# of Woodcuts: 0
Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs
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New-Year's Day: A Poem.
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Chapbook #27 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Quoted on title-page: "Now Nature's chang'd frae warm and green, To Blirty, cauld, and blae, And blythly Scotia's bairns conveen To haud their Hogmanae, The Muse, wha loes to cure the spleen, Now tunes a heartsome lay, Intent to sing what she has seen, And hail the New-Year's Day, When Friendship, Love and Joy their pleasing sounds convey."
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[1797?] per English Short Title Catalogue
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8 pages
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Poetry
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ESTC#: N40484
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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poetry
# of Woodcuts: 0
Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: poetry
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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The Contented Old Couple; and Tune Your Fiddles: Two Favourite Scots Songs. Composed by the Reverend John Skinner, Minister at Linshart, Author of Tullochgorum, &c, To which is added, Tibby I Hae seen the day: A favourite Scots Song.
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Tune Your Fiddles
Tibby I Hae seen the day: A favourite Scots Song.
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Chapbook #28 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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[1798?} per National Library of Scotland
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8 pages
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Woodcut image of musical instruments on the title-page.
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Ballads and songs
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a>
ESTC#: T34006
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Scots
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
# of Woodcuts: 1
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Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid
Musical Instrument: harp(s)
Musical Instrument: horn(s)
Nature: flower(s)
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The Earl's Defeat: A Bacchanalian Parody On the Celebrated Ancient Ballad Of Chevy Chace. To which is added, The Happy Shepherd: A Song.
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The Happy Shepherd: A Song.
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Chapbook #29 in a bound collection of 54 chapbooks
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Printer's device: two birds on branches on the title-page. <br /><br />Woodcut image of scroll and quill Finis on page 8.
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8 pages
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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[1797?] per English Short Title Catalogue
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ESTC#: N40491
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Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario
Subject
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Otterburn, Battle of, Otterburn, England, 1388
War
Percy, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403
Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow
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Glasgow: Brash & Reid
# of Woodcuts: 2
Animal: bird(s)
Bib Context: title-page
Chapbook Date: 1791-1800
Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid
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Text
MONODY
ON THE
D E A T H
OF
R O BERT BURNS.
To which are prefixed,
OBSERVATIONS
ON HIS
C H A R A C T E R
AND
G E N IU S .
The winter nights I ' ve cheer'd by turns,
W i' Rams ay, Fergusson, and Burns:
The f irst tw a cauld are in their urns,
Their s auls at rest:
Now weeping Caledonia mourns,
Him last and be .
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s
GLASGOW:
p r in t e d fo r a n d so l d b Y
Brash
Reid.
&
�CHARACTER
OF
ROBERT
BURNS,
WITH
OBSERVATIONS
on
Hi s
W RITINGS.
R O B E R T B U R N S was literally a ploughman, but
neither in that state of servile dependance, or degrading
ignorance, which the situation might bespeak in this country
.
He had the common education of a Scotch peasant,
perhaps something more, and that spirit of independence,
which is sometimes to be found, in a high degree, in the
humbles classes of society. He had genius sarting
t
t
y
e
b ond the obsacles of poverty, and which would have
t
disinguished itself in any situation.
t
His early days were occupied in procuring bread
by the labour of his own hands, in the honourable talk of
cultivating the earth, but his nights were devoted to books
and the muse, except when they were wase d in those
t
haunts of village fesivity, and in the indulgences of the
t
social bowl, to which the poet was but too immoderately
attached in every period of his life. He wrote not wi th
a view to encounter the public eye, or in the hope to
c
o
r
pure fame by his productions, but to give vent to the feelins
g
of his own genius—-to indulge the impulse of an ardent
and poetical mind.
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B u rn s,
fro m am bition, or fro m th a t r e s l e ss ac tiv ity ,
t
w hich is th e peculiar ch arac te ris i c of his c o u n try m en ,
t
p o sed to em ig rate to Jam aica, in o rd er to seek his fo rtu n e
r
o
b y th e exertion of th o se talen ts of w h ich he felt h im self
p o ssessed.
It w as upon this occasion, th a t one of his friends
su g g e s e d to h im th e idea of publish in g his poem s, in o rd er
t
to ra ise a few pounds to defray th e expences of his p a ssage.
T h e idea w as eagerly em braced.
A cheap edition of his
po em s w as fi r st p u b lished at K ilm arn o ck .
T h e y w e re soon
n o ticed b y th e g en tlem en in th e neig h b o u rh o o d .
Proofs of
such u n co m m o n genius, in a situ atio n so h u m b le, m ad e th e
acquaintance of th e a u th o r eagerly so u g h t after.
H is poem s reach in g E d in b u rg h , som e
e x tracts, and
a n account of th e a u th o r w e re in se rted in th e periodical
p a p e r The Lounger, w h ic h w as a t th a t tim e in th e course of
p u b licatio n .
T h e voyage of th e a u th o r w as delayed in th e
ho p e th a t a suitab le p ro v ision w o u ld be m ade fo r h im by
th e g e n e ro sity of th e public.
A subscription, w as set on
foot for a n ew edition of his w o rk s, an d w as fo rw ard ed b y
th e exertions of som e of th e firs c h a ra c ters in Scotland.
t
T h e su b scrip tio n lis contains a g re a te r n u m b e r of r e spectab
t
le
nam es th a n alm os hav e ever ap p eared to an y sim ilar
t
p ro d u c tio n ; b u t as th e boo k w as set a t a low price, w e hav e
re a son to k n o w th a t th e re tu rn to th e a u th o r w as n o t v ery
considerable.
B
urns
w as
b ro u g h t to E d in b u rg h , for a
few m o n th s ev ery w h e re in v ited an d caressed, an d a t last
one o f his p atro n s p ro cu red h im th e situ atio n of an Excisem
a
n
,
w ith an incom e of so m ew h at less th a n 50I. p e r a n n u m .
"We believe, th a t no se p s w e re ta k e n to b e tte r th is
t
hm incom e, an d h e w as soon disg u s e d w ith his situ a tio n .
ub
le
t
H is talen ts w e re often obscured , an d finally im p aire d by
excess, an d his p riv a te circumsta n c e s w e re im b itte re d b y
p ecuniary d istress.
W ith regard to his Poems, it has been ju stly observed.
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that, without the apologies arising from his stuation in life,
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they are fully entitled to command our feelings, and to
obtain our applause. Some of his productions, especially
those of the grave sy le, possess a high tone of feeling, a
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power and energy of expression, particularly and srongly
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characterisic of the mind and the voice of a Poet. Of the
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solemn and sublime, the Poems entitled The Vis ion, D esp ondn,y
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The Lam ent, W in ter, a Dirge, and the Invocation to
R uin , afford sri k in g examples. Of the tender and the
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oal,
m many advantageous specimens may be found, in the
Elegiac Verses, intitled M a n w as made to mourn, in The
Cottar' s Saturday night, the Stanzas to a M ou e , and those to
s
a M ountain Daisy . There is scarcely an image more truly
pastoral than that of the Lark, in the second Stanza of the
last mentioned Poem. It is one of those strokes that mark
the pencil of the Poet, which delineates nature with the
delicate colouring of beauty and of taste.
Against some passages of his Poems it has been objected,
that they breathe a spirit of libertinism and irreligion. But
it ought to be considered that he attacks only the ignorance
and fanaticism of the lower class of people, a fanaticism of
that pernicious sort which sets faith in opposition to good
works. Of religion he expresses, in several places, the jus e st
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sentiments, though he has been sometimes sufficiently open
in his ridicule of hypocrisy.
Such, we believe, is the faithful portrait of a man, who
in his compositions, has discovered the force of native
h our, the warmth and tenderness of paso n , the glowing
m
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i
s
touches of a descriptive pencil, and that honest pride and
independence of soul whc h are often the Muses only
i
dower.—-A man who was the pupil of nature, the Poet of
inspiration, and who possessed, in an extraordinary degree,
the powers and the failings of genius.
�MONODY.
M elpomene , thou mournfu’ muse,
Dinna to aid me now refuse,
My paper mony a tear bedews,
My heart’s like lead,
Now while I write the waefu’ news,
That Robin’s dead,
II.
For serling genius, blyth and free,
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Fam’d Robin’s match when shall we see?
Ye sons o' music rise and gie
A waefu’ screed,
The pith and saul o’ mirth and glee
Wi’ Burns are fled.
III.
Ye lasses, gathering heather bells,
By Scotia's mosses, glens, or fells,
Ye bardies “ crooning to yoursels’'
By burn or brae,
Echo thro' a’ her hills and dells
The sang of wae;
IV.
He sang of nature’s “ soggage green,"
And a' her sweets that charm our een,
In strains that ne’er shall fail, I ween,
Our sauls to cheer;
For in a crack they drive the spleen
Frae a’ that hear.
V.
In spring, when Sol span out the day,
And Boreas’ blass were fled away,
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Sax rood of ground Rab o’er could lay,
Syne on his reed,
At night untir’d fine could he play,
But ah! he’s dead.
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V I.
He lash’d the canting whining race,
Wha wear an artificial face,
Tho’ blest wi’ kirks, or out of place
Rab did na care,
Hypocrisy weel could he trace
And ne’er did spare.
V II.
His Ordination, Holy Fair,
And Pries wha like a calf did rair,
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Some thought these hurt religion fair.
That heav’nly maid,
But what was wrang Rab wadna spare,
For a’ they said.
VIII.
And whan he sings the Holy Fair,
W hat man of sense can ca’ it mair?
Tho’ bigotry, with ideot-sare,
t
Offence may tak ;
Yet pure religion when or where
Does he attack ?
IX.
Na, na, religion heav’nly fair!
Thy dictates Rab did ay revere,.
And tho’ he did na practise mair,
Yet ah! waes me,
Whare dwalls the man that disna err
As well as he?
X.
He paints religion a’ fae sweet,
As true devotions fire may beet;
But satyrizes most complete
And fair taks aff,
A' them that mix our heav’nly wheat
W i’ common c ’aff.
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XI.
)
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L et poor dull rhymers rack their brains,
His native wild enchanting srains
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Shall charm a’ Caledonia’s swains,
Baith young and aul,
While mountain dais es -deck our plains
They’ll touch the saul.
XII.
And far awa, as weel’s at hame,
His merit shallb e kend the same ;
For time shall dry up baith the Thame
And silver Tweed,
Before he shall destroy the fame
Of him now dead.
XIII.
Ambitious fools hae mony a time
Striven to outrival Robin’s rhyme;
But pith was wanting—poor dull chyme
Was a’ they gied;
Rab was the boy hit a’ things prime,
But ah! he’s dead.
XIV.
Parnassus’ basards, mony a gelping,
t
Hae deev’d us wi’ their dinsome yelping;
But his sweet fangs ne’er needed helping.
To send to prent;
F or rank and file his words cam’ skelping,
Afore he kent.
XV.
Some feckless rhymers’ wit’s fae scarce
They’re pinch’d to screed an antrin verse;
But Robin’s fertile muse was fierce,
And slout and baul':
H er pithy style had power to pierce
The very saul.
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8
)
XVI.
H is death wi’ Tar mair grief we learn,
T hat on reflection we d iscern,
Lang might we had our favorite bairn,
In health fu’ sicker:
O cnrfe the fallows did him learn
To toom the bicker.
XVII.
O dool ! that e’er he left the plough,
And took him to a trade was new,
And bade sweet Temperance adieu!
For wae to tell,
Then up like W atson's cock he flew,
And tint himself.
XVIII.
But let us not, as chatt’ring fools,
"Proclaim his fauts, like envy’s tools
Wha seek out darkness jus like owls,
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Dark, dark indeed;
But a' his failings co’er wi’ mools,
Now since he’s dead.
XIX.
As bright a genius death has torn,
Frae us, as Scotia did adorn,
L ike Phoebus whan he springs at morn,
Clear was his head;
W hat news could mak’ us mair forlorn,
Than Robin’s dead?
XX.
The winter nights I’ve cheer’d by turn
W i’ Ramsay, Fergusson, and Burns:
The firs twa cauld are in their urns,
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Their sauls at rest :
Now weeping Caledonia mourns,
Him las and best.
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F I N I S.
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