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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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Volume I
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Volume II
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Volume III
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VOLUME IV
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MISCELLANEOUS SONGS
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INTERPOLATIONS
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IMPROBABLES

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ON BEING APPOINTED TO AN EXCISE DIVISION

Searching auld wives' barrels,
Ochon, the day
That clarty barm should stain my laurels!
But what'll ye say?
These movin' things ca'd wives an' weans
Wad move the very hearts o' stanes.
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