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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Written Beneath A Portrait of Robert Burns

1. Thou of the wild impassioned brain Who poured thy heart in bloody rain And was by thine own passions slain Oh who thy sorrow can compute O'er all the bitter bitter fruit Of instincts trampled underfoot For there’s an angel sits above Guarding the sanctities of love That doth all levity reprove 2 Cold natures never can compute The terrible lifelong dispute Souls such as thine wage with the brute And thus it is we often see Good men all void of charity For souls tossed on a raging sea For here we have had all along One standard measure for the weak and strong And surely surely we are wrong

Alexander McLachlan. 85