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Page 149
... weel down a shapely shank, As e'er tread yird; An' could hae flown out-owre a stank, Like onie bird. reminiscence grows on him, he thinks of his own It's now some nine-an'-twenty year, Sin' thou was my Guid-father's Meere; He gied me ...
... weel down a shapely shank, As e'er tread yird; An' could hae flown out-owre a stank, Like onie bird. reminiscence grows on him, he thinks of his own It's now some nine-an'-twenty year, Sin' thou was my Guid-father's Meere; He gied me ...
Page 152
... Weel kens the gudewife that the pleughs require A heartsome meltith, and refreshing synd O' nappy liquor, o'er a bleezing fire: Sair wark and poortith douna weel be join'd. Wi' butter'd bannocks now the girdle reeks, I' the far nook the ...
... Weel kens the gudewife that the pleughs require A heartsome meltith, and refreshing synd O' nappy liquor, o'er a bleezing fire: Sair wark and poortith douna weel be join'd. Wi' butter'd bannocks now the girdle reeks, I' the far nook the ...
Page 157
... weel s the new; almost The Farher mixes a' wi' admonition due. Terms like "social hours" hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as "each tells the uncos that he sees or hears," while in the last four lines the ...
... weel s the new; almost The Farher mixes a' wi' admonition due. Terms like "social hours" hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as "each tells the uncos that he sees or hears," while in the last four lines the ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
Copyright | |
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