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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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YE TRUE LOYAL NATIVES

Ye true ‘Loyal Natives’ attend to my song:
In uproar and riot rejoice the night long!
From Envy and Hatred your core is exempt,
But where is your shield from the darts of Contempt?