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CHIEFLY IN THE

SCOTTISH DIALECT.

BY ROBERT BURNS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BELFAST:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM MAGEE

CHIEFLY.

SCOTTISH.

WRITTEN

IN

FRIARS-CARSE HERMITAGE,

ON NITH-SIDE.

THOU

HOU whom chance may hither lead

Be thou clad in ruffet weed,

Be thou deckt in filken ftole,

Grave these counsels on thy foul.

Life is but a day at moft,

Sprung from night, in darknefs loft;

Hope not funshine every hour,
Fear not clouds will always lour.

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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,,
Beneath thy morning ftar advance,
Pleasure with her firen air.

May delude the thoughtless pair;
Let Prudence blefs Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptured fip and fip it up.

As thy day grows warm and high,'
Life's meridian flaming nigh,

Doft thou fpurn the humble vale?

Life's proud fummits wouldft thou fcale?
Check thy climbing step elate,

Evils lurk in felon wait :

Dangers, eagle-pinioned, bold,
Soar around each cliffy hold,
While chearful peace, with linnet fong,
Chants the lowly dells among..

As thy fhades of .evening clofe,
Beck'ning thee to long repofe ;-
As life itself becomes disease, -
Seek the chimney-nook of cafe.
There ruminate with fober thought;

On all thou❜ft feen, and heard, and wrought
And teach the fportive younkers round,
Saws of experience, fage and found.
Say, man's true, genuine eítimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not, art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow

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