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What does it mean?
It is good to be happy, honest, and supportive of one's country and its people.
In plain terms
Be merry, honest, and loyal to your nation.
What can you take from it?
Honesty and loyalty are virtues worth supporting.

Where it applies

  • national celebration
  • moral guidance
  • community building

Putting it to work

  • practice honesty daily
  • support local causes

Questions to consider

  • What does it mean to be loyal to your country?
  • Is honesty always the best policy?

Another view

National loyalty can sometimes conflict with broader ethical concerns.

More from Robert Burns

  1. In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

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  2. If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

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  3. God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

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