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O thou pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders here to wail and weep! With woe I nightly…
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Duan First The sun had clos’d the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger’d maukin taen her way, To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step…
Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason; But surely Dreams were ne’er indicted Treason. On reading, in the public papers, the Laureate’s Ode, with the other parade…
Dear Smith, the slee’st, pawkie thief, That e’er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; For ne’er a bosom yet was prief Against your arts.…
Lament in rhyme, lament in prose, Wi’ saut tears trickling down your nose; Our bardie’s fate is at a close, Past a’ remead! The last, sad cape-stane o’ his…
Ye Irish lords, ye knights an’ squires, Wha represent our brughs an’ shires, An’ doucely manage our affairs In parliament, To you a simple poet’s pray’rs Are humbly sent.…
As any of us who have learned a poem or song will agree, to master the words of Burns’ greatest work and present it at the Club’s annual supper, is…
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“The Star” has now become something of a standard part of the proceedings at ‘Let it Blaw.’ It wasn’t always that way, for although it was included as part of…
Robert Burns Association of North America – Halifax Burns Club, Nova Scotia, Canada – Scottish Society of Dallas – Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee – Robert Burns…