The Vote Excerpt

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This only grant me : that my means may lie

Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Some honour I would have,

Not from great deeds, but good alone ;

Th’ ignote are better than ill-known,

Rumor can ope the grave.

Acquaintance I would hug, but when ‘t depends

Not from the number, but the choice of friends.

Books should, not business, entertain the light,

And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night.

My house a cottage more

Than palace, and should fitting be

For all my use, no luxury.

My garden painted o’er

With nature’s hand, not art’s, and pleasures yield

Horace might envy in his Sabine field.

Thus would I double my life’s fading space,

For he that runs it well twice runs his race.

And in this true delight,

These unbought sports and happy state

I would not fear, nor wish my fate,

But boldly say each night,

To-morrow let my sun his beams display,

Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to-day.

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• Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sonnet On Receiving A Favour: Addressed to Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland: Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Eppie Adair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Whistle O’er The Lave O’t: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Carle, An The King Come: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Tam Glen: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo: by Robert Burns

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