Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, Volume 2William Magee, 1800 |
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... feen , and heard , and wrought And teach the fportive younkers round , Saws of experience , fage and found . Say , man's true , genuine eítimate , The grand criterion of his fate , Is not , art thou high or low ? Did thy fortune ebb or ...
... feen , and heard , and wrought And teach the fportive younkers round , Saws of experience , fage and found . Say , man's true , genuine eítimate , The grand criterion of his fate , Is not , art thou high or low ? Did thy fortune ebb or ...
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... feen the pleys that happen there , Or , aiblins , read its frolics rare , In RABBIE's lay , Can only now , wi ' it , compare The fports that day .. Like ony camp , around a hill Were boorick made wi ' meikle skill , Pang'd to the eie wi ...
... feen the pleys that happen there , Or , aiblins , read its frolics rare , In RABBIE's lay , Can only now , wi ' it , compare The fports that day .. Like ony camp , around a hill Were boorick made wi ' meikle skill , Pang'd to the eie wi ...
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... feen a rakish phizzy , Sae took , frae chields wha were right bizzy , O ' ufquabae , Till , laik - a - nie ! baith fick and dizzy Was fhe , that day . At times like this , when chields are fkairin ' Wi ' ilka ane they meet , a fairin ...
... feen a rakish phizzy , Sae took , frae chields wha were right bizzy , O ' ufquabae , Till , laik - a - nie ! baith fick and dizzy Was fhe , that day . At times like this , when chields are fkairin ' Wi ' ilka ane they meet , a fairin ...
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... before the ftorm , And ithers plant them in my room . I've feen fae mony changefu ' years ,. On earth I am a ftranger grown : I wander in the ways of men , Alike unknowing and unknown : * Unheard , unpitied , unreliev'd , < I bear [ 50 ]
... before the ftorm , And ithers plant them in my room . I've feen fae mony changefu ' years ,. On earth I am a ftranger grown : I wander in the ways of men , Alike unknowing and unknown : * Unheard , unpitied , unreliev'd , < I bear [ 50 ]
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... feen Wi ' half my channel dry : A panegyric rhyme , I ween , Even as I was he shor'd me ; But had I in my glory been , He , kneeling , wad ador'd me . Here , foaming down the fhelvy rocks , In twifting ftrength I rin ; There high my ...
... feen Wi ' half my channel dry : A panegyric rhyme , I ween , Even as I was he shor'd me ; But had I in my glory been , He , kneeling , wad ador'd me . Here , foaming down the fhelvy rocks , In twifting ftrength I rin ; There high my ...
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