The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. Allan Cunningham

Wha fain would openly rebel,

       Forbye turn-coats amang oursel,

       There’s Smith for ane,

       I doubt he’s but a grey-nick quill,

       An’ that ye’ll fin’.

      O! a’ ye flocks o’er a’ the hills,

       By mosses, meadows, moors, and fells,

       Come, join your counsel and your skills

       To cow the lairds,

       And get the brutes the powers themsels

       To choose their herds;

      Then Orthodoxy yet may prance,

       And Learning in a woody dance,

       And that fell cur ca’d Common Sense,

       That bites sae sair,

       Be banish’d o’er the sea to France:

       Let him bark there.

      Then Shaw’s and Dalrymple’s eloquence,

       M’Gill’s close nervous excellence,

       M’Quhae’s pathetic manly sense,

       And guid M’Math,

       Wi’ Smith, wha thro’ the heart can glance,

       May a’ pack aff.

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HOLY WILLIE’S PRAYER.

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