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Offline Shakesthecoffecan

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Happy Robert Burns Day!
« on: January 25, 2007, 01:55:32 pm »
A Red, Red Rose (1794)

O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!



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Re: Happy Robert Burns Day!
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2007, 02:00:44 pm »
You beat me to it in the ode to Rabbie!

I'll be having some Haggis tonight in celebration (and also going to a Burns Supper/Booze up on Saturday night!)


A Man's A Man for A' That

    Is there for honest poverty
    That hings his head, an a' that?
    The coward slave, we pass him by -
    We dare be poor for a that!
    For a' that, an a' that!
    Our toils obscure, an a' that,
    The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
    The man's the gowd for a' that.

    What though on hamely fare we dine,
    Wear hodden grey, an a' that?
    Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine -
    A man's a man for a' that.
    For a' that, an a' that,
    Their tinsel show, an a' that,
    The honest man, tho e'er sae poor,
    Is king o men for a' that.

    Ye see yon birkie ca'd a lord,
    Wha struts, an stares, an a' that?
    Tho hundreds worship at his word,
    He's but a cuif for a' that.
    For a' that, an a' that,
    His ribband, star, an a' that,
    The man o independent mind,
    He looks an laughs at a' that.

    A prince can mak a belted knight,
    A marquis, duke, an a' that!
    But an honest man's aboon his might -
    Guid faith, he mauna fa' that!
    For a' that, an a' that,
    Their dignities, an a' that,
    The pith o sense an pride o worth,
    Are higher rank than a' that.

    Then let us pray that come it may
    (As come it will for a' that),
    That Sense and Worth o'er a' the earth,
    Shall bear the gree an a' that.
    For a' that, an a' that,
    It's coming yet for a' that,
    That man to man, the world, o'er
    Shall brithers be for a' that.



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Re: Happy Robert Burns Day!
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 07:18:40 pm »
"But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy!"

 :D
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