LINES WRITTEN EXTEMPORE IN A LADY'S POCKET-BOOK. [MISS KENNEDY, GRANT me, indulgent Heav'n, that I may live ONE Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell, When depriv'd of her husband she loved so well, But Queen Netherplace, of a diff'rent complexion, VERSES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW OF THE INN AT CARRON. WE came na here to view your warks But when we tirl'd at your door, Your porter dought na hear us; LINES ON BEING ASKED WHY GOD HAD MADE MISS DAVIES SO LITTLE GIVEN AT A MEETING of the dumFRIES-SHIRE VOLUNTEERS, HELD TO COMMEMORATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF RODNEY'S VICTORY, APRIL 12TH, 1782. INSTEAD of a Song, boys, I'll give you a Toast,— Here's the memory of those on the twelfth that we lost: LINES SAID TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY BURNS, WHILE ON HIS DEATH-BED, TO JOHN RANKINE, HE who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead; VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. RANKINE, ON HIS WRITING TO THE POET, THAT A GIRL IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY WAS WITH CHILD TO HIM. ON HEARING THAT THERE WAS FALSEHOOD IN THE REV. DR. B'S VERY LOOKS. THAT there is falsehood in his looks I must and will deny ; They say their master is a knave- POVERTY. IN politics if thou wouldst mix, ON A SCHOOLMASTER IN CLEISH PARISH, FIFESHIRE. HERE lie Willie Michie's banes ; EXTEMPORE IN THE COURT OF SESSION. 171 LINES WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO MRS. KEMBLE, ON SEEING HER IN THE CHARACTER KEMBLE, thou cur'st my unbelief Of Moses and his rod; At Yarico's sweet notes of grief LINES. I MURDER hate by field or flood, The deities that I adore Are social Peace and Plenty, LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW, AT THE KING'S ARMS TAVERN, DUMFRIES. YE men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering 'Gainst poor Excisemen? give the cause a hearing; LINES WRITTEN ON THE WINDOW OF THE GLOBE TAVERN, DUMFRIES. THE graybeard, Old Wisdom, may boast of his treasures, I grant him his calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures, |