The Poetry of Robert Burns Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson |
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ON MARRIAGE
That hackney'd judge of human life,The Preacher and the King,
Observes:—‘The man that gets a wife
He gets a noble thing.’
But how capricious are mankind,
Now loathing, now desirous!
We married men, how oft we find
The best of things will tire us!
| The Poetry of Robert Burns | |