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O Life! how pleasant in thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold-pausing… — Robert Burns

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O Life! how pleasant in thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at th' expected warning, To joy and play.

Robert Burns
1786
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1786Age of Enlightenment
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Robert Burns
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Burns, Robert. "To James Smith." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 16.
Original citation
Burns, Robert. "Epistle to James Smith." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, st. 16.

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