LIFE

OF

ROBERT BURNS.

BY J. G. LOCKHART.

OF HIM WHO WALKED IN GLORY AND IN JOY,
BEHIND HIS PLOUGH UPON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE.

WORDSWORTH.

THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE AND CO.;
AND HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., LONDON.

1830.

162085-A

ΤΟ

JAMES HOGG,

AND

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM,

THIS VOLUME

IS

INSCRIBED, IN TESTIMONY

OF

ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

r. 9

"My father was a farmer upon the Carrick Border,

And carefully be brought me up in decency and order."

"O enviable early days,

When dancing thoughtless pleasure's maze,

To care and guilt unknown!

How ill exchanged for riper times,

To feel the follies or the crimes

Of others or my own!"

CHAPTER III.

"The star that rules my luckless lot

Has fated me the russet coat,

And damn'd my fortune to the groat;

But in requit,

Has bless'd me wi' a random shot

O' country wit. »

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