Poem by Robert Burns

O Why the Deuce

O WHY the deuce should I repine,
  And be an ill foreboder?
I’m twenty-three, and five feet nine-
  I’ll go and be a sodger.

I gat some gear wi’ meikle care,
  I held it weel thegither;
But now it’s gane and something mair
  I’ll go and be a sodger.

1. There’s News, Lasses
2. Scroggam
3. There’s a Youth in This City
4. Lines Written at Loudon Manse
5. To Alex Cunningham, Writer

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