“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.”

—  Robert Burns

Here's a Health to Them That's Awa, st. 1
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

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