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The Dumfries Volunteers.
Written for this^Work b> Robert Burns.
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O let us not, like fnatling curs.
In wrangling be divided.
Till, flap, come in an unco Ioun«
And wi a rung decide it;
I Be Britain ftill to Britain true,
Aniani; ourfels united:
For never but hy Britillt hands
Maun Btitifb wrangs be righted.
For never but <tc.
The kettle o* the Kirk and State,
Perhaps a clout may fail int;
But deil a foreign tinkler loiin
Shall ever ca a nail in't:
Our fethet-8 blude the kettle boughtl
Ajid *»ha lAad dare to fpoil it,
By Hca^tn9, the farrilc^ous dog
Shall fuel be to boil iti
By Heavens, <tc.
The wretch that would a Tvrnnt own.
And the wretch, his tme fworn brother.
Who would tet the Mob :ibove ihc throne,
Mr.\' the^ be dainn'd toLrefher.
Who will not finir, (^od i-.vo the km^r;
Shall hang- as hiirh's the fteeple;
But whiJ,e MX: f!ng,Ged favc the kj«i^-.
We 11 ne'er forget the People.
But while wo fing &c.