'With future hope I oft would gaze Fir'd at the simple, artless lays 'I saw thee seek the sounding shore, 'Or when the deep green-mantled earth I saw thee eye the general mirth When ripen'd fields and azure skies To vent thy bosom's swelling rise, 'When youthful love, warm-blushing, strong, Keen-shivering, shot thy nerves along, Those accents grateful to thy tongue, THE VISION Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, 'I saw thy pulse's maddening play, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from Heaven. 12 'I taught thy manners-painting strains, And some, the pride of Coila's plains,1 13 'Thou canst not learn, nor I can show, With Shenstone's art; Or pour, with Gray, the moving flow 'Yet, all beneath th' unrivall'd rose, Tho' large the forest's monarch throws 12 The last two lines reveal the profundity of Burns as a philosopher. Plato, Goethe, and Ruskin expounded the truth that "evil springs from unused good." It makes the truth more clear to substitute "misused" for "unused." " Kyle. His army-shade, Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows, Adown the glade. "Then never murmur nor repine; Can give a bliss o'ermatching thine, 'To give my counsels all in one, With soul erect; And trust the Universal Plan Will all protect. 'And wear thou this'-she solemn said, And, like a passing thought, she fled ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS My Son, these maxims make a rule, The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The cleanest corn that e'er was dight SOLOMON.-Eccles. ch. vii. verse 16 O YE wha are sae guid yoursel, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Hear me, ye venerable core, As counsel for poor mortals That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glakit Folly's portals: I, for their thoughtless, careless sakes, Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, its various tone, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, |