Edinburgh Illustrated Edition of the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Complete Volume 2

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. ...are such who court the tuneful N ineHeavens! should the branded character be mine! Whose verse in manhood's pride sublimely flows, Yet vilest reptiles in their begging prose. Mark, how their lofty independent spirit Soars on the spurning wing of injur'd merit! Seek you the proofs in private life to find? Pity the best of words should be but wind! So, to heaven's gates the lark's shrill song ascends, But grovelling on the earth the carol ends. In all the clam'rous cry of starving want, They dun Benevolence with shameless front; Oblige them, patronise their tinsel lays-They persecute you all your future days! Ere my poor soul such deep damnation stain, My horny fist assume the plough again, The pie-bald jacket let me patch once more, On eighteenpence a week I've liv'd before. Tho', thanks to Heaven, I dare even that last shift, I trust, meantime, my boon is in thy That, plac'd by thee upon the wish'd-for height, Where, man and nature fairer in her sight, My Muse may imp her wing for some sublimer flight. In a letter from the poet to Miss Chalmers, written from Ellisland, 16th September 1788, he says---" I very lately--narnely, since harvest began--wrote a poem, not in imitation, but in the manner, of Pope's Moral E/istles. It is only a short essay, just to try the strength of my Muse'; pinion in that way." In the same letter he says, " You will be pleased to hear that I have laid aside idle éclat, and bind every day after my reapers. To save me from that horrid situation of at any time going down, in a losing bargain of a farm, to misery, I have taken my excise instructions, and have my commission in my pocket for any emergency of fortune. If I could set...

Language: English

Pages: 70

Format: Paperback

Release: September 13, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781236954053

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