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Excerpt from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Beneath a lowly roof 0' straw, Did I the vital air first draw, When surly Winter held his reign Owre histy height ah1 level plain. Sae deep the snaw lay on each field, It ilka hedge an' dyke conceal'd; While through my cottage' chinky door The drift pil'd on the earthen ?oor Sae neither gossiping nor mirth Attended on my humble birth. An should the outset o' my rhymes Meet cauld reception frae the times, It's only what their author met, When in the warld his nose he set.
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