Quote #12
It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.
More from Robert Burns
- On ev'ry hand it will allowed be, He's just-nae better than he should be.
- Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
- The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, And none but he!
- His locked, lettered, braw brass collar Showed him the gentleman an' scholar.
- Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
- An' there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
- From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath o…
- O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. What airs in …