“Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”

— Robert Burns , Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, st. 5 (1787)

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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

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