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by Robert Burns On Commissary Goldie's BrainsThanksgiving For A National VictoryLines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
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On a DreamOn Seeing the Elgin MarblesOn a Leander Gem Which a Young Lady Gave the Author Come hither all sweet maidens soberly,
Down-looking, aye, and with a chasten’d light
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And even Wolves the Sheep forget;
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