I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union..

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!.

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play..

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fan….

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed..

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!.

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God..

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away..

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "A….

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings..

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare..

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this..

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever..

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breat….

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!.

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy..

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear..

But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing ….

At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad….