Quote #19

Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon.

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  1. Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom.
  2. I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
  3. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is…
  4. An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended.
  5. 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 …
  6. There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o' man, An' then she made the lasses, O.
  7. An' there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
  8. Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O.

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