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It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue!

Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.