ÍI. And thou grim pow'r, by life abhorr'd, My weary heart its throbbings cease, No fear more, no tear more, ΤΟ TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS As a New Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787. AGAIN the silent wheels of time No gifts have I from Indian coasts I send you more than India boasts Our Our sex with guile and faithless love But may, dear maid, each lover prove EPISTLE I LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, VOL. III. P II. II. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And muckle they may grieve ye: And a' your views may come to nought, III. I'll no say, men are villains a'; But, och! mankind are unco weak, An' little to be trusted; IV. Yet they wha fa' in fortune's strife, They equally may answer; A man |