Poem by Robert Burns

Inscribed on a Tavern Window

Thou Greybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures;
  	Give me with young Folly to live:
I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures;
  	But Folly has raptures to give.

1. The Day Returns
2. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
3. Peg-A-Ramsey
4. Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs
5. To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her

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