Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted