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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

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God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

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