And thou grim Pow'r by life abhorr'd,
While life a pleasure can afford,
Oh!
(To Ruin)
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Love sits in her smile, a wizard ensnaring;Enthron'd in her een he delivers his law:
And still to her charms SHE alone is a stranger;
Her modest demeanour's the jewel of a'.
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They laid him out upon the floor,
To work him farther woe,
And still, as signs of life appeared,
They tossed him to and fro.
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The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
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'Tis thine to pity and forgive.
Robert Burns
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
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