The complete works of Robert Burns: containing his poems, songs, and correspondence . THE BirmiPH PLACJE OI ^^>^i Mi^cAt^t ^T^ly, THE COMPLETE WORKS ROBERT BURIS: CONTAINING HIS POEMS, SONGS, AND COMESPONDENCE. •WITH A NEW LIFE OF THE POET, AND NOTICES, CRITICAL AND BIOGEAPHICAL,BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. 1852. •P 1^ A^: ^D amP. HUTCHESON. 31 Ji 07 ARCHIBALD HASTIE, ESQ. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR PAISLEY, EDITION THE WORKS AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT POET, IN WHOSE SENTIMENTS OP FREEDOM HE SHARES, AND WHOSE PICTURES OP SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC L
The complete works of Robert Burns: containing his poems, songs, and correspondence . THE BirmiPH PLACJE OI ^^>^i Mi^cAt^t ^T^ly, THE COMPLETE WORKS ROBERT BURIS: CONTAINING HIS POEMS, SONGS, AND COMESPONDENCE. •WITH A NEW LIFE OF THE POET, AND NOTICES, CRITICAL AND BIOGEAPHICAL,BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. 1852. •P 1^ A^: ^D amP. HUTCHESON. 31 Ji 07 ARCHIBALD HASTIE, ESQ. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR PAISLEY, EDITION THE WORKS AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT POET, IN WHOSE SENTIMENTS OP FREEDOM HE SHARES, AND WHOSE PICTURES OP SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE HE LOVES, IS EESPECTFULLT AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED ALLAN DEDICATION. TO THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CALEDONIAN HUNT. [On the title-page of the second or Edinburgh edition, were these words: Poems, chiefly inI the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, motto of the Kilmarnock edition was omitted ; a very numerous list of subscribers followed:the volume was printed by the celebrated Smellie.] 3Iy Lords and Gentlemen : A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to sing inhis countrys service, where shall he so properly look for patronage as to the illustriousnames of his native land: those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of theirancestors ? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijahdid Elisha—^at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade mesing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in mynative tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. She whisper
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