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will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but more
unenlightened in our own.-R.B.  Type: Poem Yes! let the rich
deride, the proud disdain, The simple pleasure of the lowly
train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm,
than all the gloss of art. Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans^2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid
blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is
ta'en, Beneath the moon's pale beams; There, up the Cove,^3 to
stray an' rove, Amang the rocks and streams To sport that night;
Amang the bonie winding banks, Where Doon