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YOUR billet, Sir, I grant receipt; Wi’ you I’ll canter ony gate, Tho’ ’twere a trip to yon blue warl’, Whare birkies march on burning marl: Then, Sir, God willing, I’ll attend ye, And to his goodness I commend ye.R. BURNS
Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton
172Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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