Robert Burns - Nature Quotes

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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,
And framed her last, best work, the human mind,
Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,
She formed of various stuff the various Man.

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For thus the royal mandate ran,
When first the human race began,
'The social, friendly, honest man,
Whate'er he be,
'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan,
And none but he.'

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The social, friendly, honest man,
Whate'er he be,
'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,
And none but he!

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What is life, when wanting love?
Night without a morning;
Love's the cloudless summer sun,
Nature gay adorning.

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Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.

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Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.

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Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

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The voice of Nature loudly cries,
And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies.

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!

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To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!

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I'm truly sorry Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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