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Old Year Leaves

Being Old Verses Revised: By H. T. Mackenzie Bell ... New Edition

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BURNS.

Born of the people with a dower of song;—
Unlearnt in academic lore, yet strong;
Ranging each chord of lyric minstrelsy
'Neath genius-tutored fingers grandly free;
Still sweet and clear thy tones for Time eterne shall be.