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TO GAVIN HAMILTON

May Kennedy's far-honor'd name
Lang beet his hymeneal flame,
Till Hamiltons, at least a dizzen,
Are frae their nuptial labors risen:

Five bonie lasses round their table,
And sev'n braw fellows, stout an' able,
To serve their king an' country weel,
By word, or pen, or pointed steel!
May health and peace, with mutual rays,
Shine on the ev'ning o' his days.'

VERSIFIED NOTE TO DR. MACKENZIE MAUCHLINE

FRIDAY first's the day appointed
By the Right Worshipful anointed,
To hold our grand procession;
To get a blad o' Johnie's morals,
And taste a swatch o' Manson's barrels
I' the way of our profession.

The Master and the Brotherhood
Would a' be glad to see you;
For me I wad be mair than proud
To share the mercies wi' you.

If Death, then, wi' skaith, then,

Some mortal heart is hechtin',
Inform him, and storm him,

That Saturday you'll fecht him.

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BURNS' BACHELORS' CLUB ROOM IN TARBOLTON.

Burns had a debating society in Tarbolton, in Kirkoswald, and in Mauchline, to develop his varied powers. The upper room in this picture was his Bachelors' Club Room in Tarbolton.

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THE "NEW BRIG" O' DOON FROM THE AULD BRIG.

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THE MASONIC LODGE-ROOM, WHERE BURNS WAS MASTER, IN TARBOLTON.

The house on the left was the Masonic Lodge-room, where Burns was master in Tarbolton. The house on the right is the one in which he learned to dance. He was initiated in St. David's Lodge, but after a time he and other members seceded and established St. James Lodge in this house.

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