ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

Heart Could Not Wish for More

MY blessings on ye, honest wife,
I ne'er was here before :
Ye've wealth o9 gear for spoon and knife,

Heart could not wish for mote.
Heaven keep you clear of sturt and strife*

Till far ayont four score,
And while I toddle on through life
I'll ne'er gae by your door !

Robert Bums

Mary Queen of Scots Waiting for Death
OSOON to me may summer suns
Nae inair light up the morn.,
Nae mair to me the autumn winds
Wave o'er the yellow corn.
And in the narrow house of death
Let winter round me rave,
And the next flowers that deck the spring
Bloom on my peaceful grave.
Robert Burns
A/ton Water
FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braess
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ;
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream,
Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro* the glen,
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den,
Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear,
I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair.
How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills,
Far mark'd, with the courses of clear winding rills ;
There daily I wander as noon rises high,
My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye,
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below,
Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow ;
There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea,
The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Mobert Burns
The Heavens Above and the Law Within
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and
awe—the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Kant