Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Now's the day and now's the hour.
To step aside is human.
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.