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The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
Novelty in all things is charming.
Novelty in all things is charming.
It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
