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III.Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave!
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
IV. Wha for Scotland's king and law
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa',
Let him follow me!
V. By oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
VI. Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!—
Let us do or die!
Burns From Walter 42nd Highlanders
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Bessie Lee
I. Bonnie Bessie Lee had a face fu’ o’ smiles,
And mirth round her ripe lip was aye dancing slee;
And light was the footfa’, and winsome the wiles,
O’ the flower o’ the parochin—our ain Bessie Lee.
On board the "candia" for India Oct. 1857
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