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BOOK II IN SCOTS | ||
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I. | The Maker to Posterity | 155 |
Far 'yont amang the years to be | ||
II. | Ille Terrarum | 157 |
Frae nirly, nippin', Eas'lan' breeze | ||
III. | 160 | |
When aince Aprile has fairly come | ||
IV. | A Mile an' a Bittock | 161 |
A mile an' a bittock, a mile or twa | ||
V. | A Lowden Sabbath Morn | 162 |
The clinkum-clank o' Sabbath bells | ||
VI. | The Spaewife | 167 |
O, I wad like to ken—to the beggar-wife says I— | ||
VII. | The Blast—1875 | 169 |
It's rainin'. Weet's the gairden sod | ||
VIII. | The Counterblast—1886 | 170 |
My bonny man, the warld, it's true | ||
IX. | The Counterblast Ironical | 173 |
It's strange that God should fash to frame |
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