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Quotation by Robert Burns
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Address to the DeilAddress to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly RighteousAe Fond Kiss"Afton Water" Johnson's Musical Museum, vol. 4 (1792)A Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten DaughterRelated Subjects
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O thou that in the heavens does dwell!
Wha, as it pleases best thysel',
Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell,
A' for thy glory!
And no for ony gude or ill
They've done before thee.—
Wha, as it pleases best thysel',
Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell,
A' for thy glory!
And no for ony gude or ill
They've done before thee.—
Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. Holy Willie's Prayer (l. 1–6). . .
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.
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