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(Tastefully dressed, fine.)

"New Brig' was buskit in a braw new coat.
That he, at Lon'on, frae ane Adams got:
In's hand five taper staves as smooth's a bead
Wi' virls an' whirlygigums at the head."

(Rings, tawdry ornaments.) From "The Brigs of Ayr."

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Referred to in "The Brigs of Ayr," erected in honor of Sir William Wallace, Scotland's great patriot:

"Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled."

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Near the romantic hills (Cassilis Downans):
"Upon that night where fairies light
On Cassilis Downans dance."

-"Halloween."

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Near the Carrick border, the first farm rented by the father of the poet. "My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border."

Here Burns lived from 1766 to 1777, from seven to eighteen years of age; within reach of Tarbolton and Dalrymple.

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