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• In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

  Robert Burns

  Sorrow, Prison, Couches

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88

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• Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

  Robert Burns

  Mean, Term, Happens

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• Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Ocean, Adventure

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• They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

  Robert Burns

  Military, Lord, Vain

  'The Cotter's Saturday Night' (1786) st. 6

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• Such is the fate of simple Bard,
  On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

  Robert Burns

  Ocean, Fate, Simple

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.239

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• That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

  Robert Burns

  Night, Black, Arches

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Gentleman, Apparel, Brass

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

  Robert Burns

  Jealous, Heaven, Atheism

  Robert Burns (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.256

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• And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

  Robert Burns

  Green

  Robert Burns, Gilbert Burns (1813). “The Works: With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry : in Four Volumes”, p.135

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