John GM Kendrick, MD,

June 1873.

F. Simile Engrave 11y Maclure & Macdad. Glasgow. for M.Kies Kilmarnock Edition of BURNS 1869.

KILMARNOCK POPULAR EDITION.

THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS,

ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR EARLIEST PUBLICATION.

VOLUME FIRST,

EMBRACING ALL THE PIECES PUBLISHED DURING
HIS LIFETIME;

WITH A MEMOIR OF THE POET, ON A PLAN NOW FIRST ADOPTED,

AND NEW ANNOTATIONS, INTRODUCTORY NOTICES, &c.,

WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE PRESENT WORK

BY WILLIAM SCOTT DOUGLAS.

"O DEEM not, midst this worldly strife,
An idle art the poet brings:

Let high philosophy control,

And sages calm the stream of life;

'Tis HE refines its fountain-springs-

The nobler passions of the soul."-Campbell.

KILMARNOCK: JAMES M'KIE.

1871.