Quote #3

I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union.

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  1. Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!
  2. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.
  3. Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!
  4. Nature's law, That man was made to mourn.
  5. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Man was made to Mourn.
  6. He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God' he says, with solemn air.
  7. 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…
  8. Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

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