THE BALLAD OF RABBIE BURNS - damowords
THE BALLAD OF RABBIE BURNS - damowords
THE BALLAD OF RABBIE BURNS - damowords
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Almost as Soon as Rab was dead<br />
His legacies were protected<br />
His scatter’d letters collected<br />
Through years of work<br />
& anecdotals edited<br />
To please the kirk<br />
Tho Rabbie’s was an Ayrshire muse<br />
All Scotia bonds to share his views<br />
As ‘cross the land uprise statues<br />
Like some mad dance<br />
So generations can peruse<br />
A poet’s stance<br />
When lives we lead are good & lang<br />
To memories our youth does gang<br />
But Jeanies was preserv’d in sang<br />
& poetry<br />
So all could share Rab’s loving pang<br />
Immortally<br />
& to alleive Jean’s morbid mood *<br />
A fresh edition swiftly glued<br />
Enough to feed Rab’s cleckin brood<br />
From yon the grave<br />
For day‐by‐day his fame renewed<br />
In songs men crave<br />
DUAN 14<br />
IMMORTALITY<br />
Burns’ life was a failure until he died.<br />
Ever since it has been a marvelous success<br />
Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
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