KILMARNOCK POPULAR EDITION. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR EARLIEST PUBLICATION. VOLUME FIRST, EMBRACING ALL THE PIECES PUBLISHED DURING WITH A MEMOIR OF THE POET, ON A PLAN NOW FIRST ADOPTED, AND NEW ANNOTATIONS, INTRODUCTORY NOTICES, &c., WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE PRESENT WORK BY WILLIAM SCOTT DOUGLAS. "O DEEM not, midst this worldly strife, Let high philosophy control, And sages calm the stream of life; 'Tis HE refines its fountain-springs- The nobler passions of the soul."-Campbell. KILMARNOCK: JAMES M'KIE. 1871. |