Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.