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Robert Burns

3 free books by Robert Burns. 3 you can read right here.

Born 1759 in Alloway · Died 1796 in Dumfries

writer, poet · Kingdom of Great Britain · associated with Romanticism

Notable works: Auld Lang Syne, To a Mouse, Is There for Honest Poverty, Ae fond kiss, and then we sever..., Scots Wha Hae

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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1279 (public domain in the USA).

Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.

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A Man’s A Man For A’ That

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For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’s coming yet for a’ that, That Man to Man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that.

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