Robert Burns - Tam o' Shanter

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The landlady and Tam grew gracious
Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious.

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Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!

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Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

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But pleasures are like poppies spread—
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river—
A moment white—then melts forever.

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Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,
That while a lassie she had worn,
In longitude tho' sorely scanty,
It was her best, and she was vauntie.

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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet
To think how monie counsels sweet,
How monie lengthened, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!

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Tam tint his reason a' thegither,
And roars out—'Weel done, Cutty-sark!'

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Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;
Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!

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Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn!
Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;
Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

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His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony:
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither—
They had been fou for weeks thegither.

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As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

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Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

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