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, As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,, May delude the thoughtless pair; As thy day grows warm and high,' Doft thou fpurn the humble vale? Life's proud fummits wouldft thou fcale? Evils lurk in felon wait : Dangers, eagle-pinioned, bold, As thy fhades of .evening clofe, On all thou❜ft feen, and heard, and wrought |