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For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa'.
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The present moment is our ain,
The neist we never saw!
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His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs.
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Nor let the critic, if he find the meaning of Camoens in some instances altered, imagine that he has found a blunder in the Translator.... It was not to gratify the dull few, whose greatest pleasure in reading a translation is to see what the author exactly says; it was to give a poem that might live in the English language which was the ambition of the Translator.... And the original is in the hands of the world.
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But are ye sure the news is true—
And are ye sure he's weel?
Is this a time to think o' wark?—
Ye jades, fling by your wheel!
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The Moon, full orb'd, forsakes her watery cave,
And lifts her lovely head above the wave.
The snowy splendors of her modest ray
Stream o'er the glist'ning waves, and quivering play:
Around her, glittering on the heav'ns arch'd brow,
Unnumber'd stars, enclos'd in azure, glow,
Thick as the dew-drops of the rosy dawn,
Or May-flowers crouding o'er the daisy-lawn:
The canvas whitens in the silvery beam,
And with a paler red the pendants gleam:
The masts' tall shadows tremble o'er the deep;
The peaceful winds an holy silence keep;
The watchman's carol echo'd from the prows,
Alone, at times, awakes the still repose.
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And will I see his face again!
And will I hear him speak!
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Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
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William Julius Mickle
Born:
September 29, 1734
Died:
October 28, 1788
(aged 54)
Bio:
William Julius Mickle was a Scottish poet.
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