Quote #78
In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
More from Robert Burns
- If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.
- It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.
- God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
- For a' that, and a' that An' twice as muckle 's a' that, I've lost but ane, I've twa behin', I've wife eneugh for a' that.
- Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!
- 'Weel done, Cutty Sark!'
- Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie.
- As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.