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Man was made to Mourn,
A DIRGE.
WHEN chill November’s surly blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One ev’ning as I wantTred forth
Along the banks of Ayr,
I spy’d a man, whose aged step
Seem’d weary, worn with care;
His face was farrow’d o’er with years,
And hoary was his hair.
Young stranger, whither wand’rest thou!
(Began the rev’rend Sage ;)
Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain.
Or youthful Pleasure’s rage ?
Or haply, prest wi’ cares end woes,
Too soon thou hast begun
To wander forth with me, to mourn
The miseries of man.
The Sun that overhangs yon moors.
Out-spreading far and wide,
Where hundreds labour to support
A haughty lordling’s pride :
I’ve seen yon weary winter-sun
Twice forty times return;
A DIRGE.
WHEN chill November’s surly blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One ev’ning as I wantTred forth
Along the banks of Ayr,
I spy’d a man, whose aged step
Seem’d weary, worn with care;
His face was farrow’d o’er with years,
And hoary was his hair.
Young stranger, whither wand’rest thou!
(Began the rev’rend Sage ;)
Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain.
Or youthful Pleasure’s rage ?
Or haply, prest wi’ cares end woes,
Too soon thou hast begun
To wander forth with me, to mourn
The miseries of man.
The Sun that overhangs yon moors.
Out-spreading far and wide,
Where hundreds labour to support
A haughty lordling’s pride :
I’ve seen yon weary winter-sun
Twice forty times return;
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Apparitions > Aloway Kirk, or, Tam o' Shanter, a tale > (21) |
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Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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