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ang Me Song--Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon Song--O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun Song--The Lass O' Ecclefechan Song--O Let Me In Thes Ae Night Song--I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election--Ballad First Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election--Ballad Second Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election--Ballad Third Inscription For An Altar Of Independence Song--The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't Song--The Cooper O' Cuddy Song--The Lass That Made The Bed To Me Song--Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me Song--Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat? Song--Address To The Woodlark Song.--On Chloris Being Ill Song--How Cruel Are The Parents Song--Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion Song--'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e Song--Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle Song--Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near Song--Fragment,--Why, Why Tell The Lover Song--The Braw Wooer Song--This Is No My Ain Lassie Song--O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier Song--Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham Song--O That's The Lassie O' My Heart Inscription to Chloris Song--Fragment.--The Wren's Nest Song--News, Lassies, News Song--Crowdie Ever Mair Song--Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet Song--Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss Verses To Collector Mitchell 1796 The Dean Of Faculty Epistle To Colonel De Peyster Song--A Lass Wi' A Tocher Song--The Trogger. Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars 1. The Toast 2. The Menagerie 3. Jessie's illness 4. On Her Recovery Song--O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass Song--A Health To Ane I Loe Dear Song--O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars Song--Fairest Maid On Devon Banks Glossary POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS Preface Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759. He was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. His father, though always extremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair education, and Robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three years in a neighboring village, and later, for shorter periods, to three other schools in the vicinity. But it was to his father and to his own reading that he owed the more important part of his education
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