See Social Life and Glee sit down,
  All joyous and unthinking,
  Till, quite transmugrify’d, they’re grown
  Debauchery and Drinking: 
  O would they stay to calculate
  Th’ eternal consequences,
  Or—­your more dreaded hell to state—­
  Damnation of expenses!

  Ye high, exalted, virtuous dames,
  Tied up in godly laces,
  Before ye gie poor Frailty names,
  Suppose a change o’ cases: 
  A dear-lov’d lad, convenience snug,
  A treach’rous inclination—­
  But, let me whisper i’ your lug,
  Ye’re aiblins nae temptation.

  Then gently scan your brother man,
  Still gentler sister woman;
  Tho’ they may gang a kennin wrang,
  To step aside is human: 
  One point must still be greatly dark,
  The moving why they do it;
  And just as lamely can ye mark
  How far perhaps they rue it.

  Who made the heart, ’tis He alone
  Decidedly can try us;
  He knows each chord, its various tone,
  Each spring, its various bias: 
  Then at the balance, let’s be mute,
  We never can adjust it;
  What’s done we partly may compute,
  But know not what’s resisted.

  JOHN ANDEKSON, MY JO

  John Anderson, my jo, John,
  When we were first acquent,
  Your locks were like the raven,
  Your bonie brow was brent: 
  But now your brow is beld, John,
  Your locks are like the snaw;
  But blessings on your frosty pow,
  John Anderson, my jo!

  John Anderson, my jo, John,
  We clamb the hill thegither;
  And monie a cantie day, John,
  We’ve had wi’ ane anither: 
  Now we maun totter down, John,
  And hand in hand we’ll go,
  And sleep thegither at the foot,
  John Anderson, my jo!

  THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS

  The lovely lass of Inverness,
  Nae joy nor pleasure can she see;
  For e’en to morn she cries, ‘Alas!’
  And aye the saut tear blin’s her e’e: 

  ’Drumossie moor—­Drumossie day—­
  A waefu’ day it was to me! 
  For there I lost my father dear,
  My father dear, and brethren three.

  ’Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay,
  Their graves are growing green to see: 
  And by them lies the dearest lad
  That ever blest a woman’s e’e!

  ’Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord,
  A bluidy man I trow thou be;
  For mony a heart thou hast made sair
  That ne’er did wrang to thine or thee!’

  A RED, RED ROSE

  O, my luv is like a red, red rose,
  That’s newly sprung in June: 
  O, my luv is like the melodie
  That’s sweetly played in tune.

  As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
  So deep in luve am I;
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  Till a’ the seas gang dry: 

  Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
  And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  While the sands o’ life shall run.