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The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
Tam o' Shanter (1790)
Nae man can tether time or tide.
Tam o' Shanter (1790)
What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Tam o' Shanter (1790)
There's some are fou o' love divine;
There's some are fou o' brandy.
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!
A Winter Night (1787)
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787)
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
Perhaps it may turn out a sang:
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.
Tam o' Shanter (1790)
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
Thou minds me o' departed joys,
Departed never to return.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787)
Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu' o' care!
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787)
But facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed.
A Dream (1786)
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
The hawthorn-trees blow in the dew of the morning.