<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116459" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Revered defender of beauteous Stuart,<br>Of Stuart, a name once respected;<br>A name, which to love was the mark of a true heart,<br>But now 'tis despis'd and neglected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho' something like moisture conglobes in my eye,<br>Let no one misdeem me disloyal;<br>A poor friendless wand'rer may well claim a sigh,<br>Still more if that wand'rer were royal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fathers that name have rever'd on a throne:<br>My fathers have fallen to right it;<br>Those fathers would spurn their degenerate son,<br>That name should he scoffingly slight it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still in prayers for King George I most heartily join,<br>The Queen, and the rest of the gentry:<br>Be they wise, be they foolish, is nothing of mine;<br>Their title's avow'd by my country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why of that epocha make such a fuss,<br>That gave us th' Electoral stem?<br>If bringing them over was lucky for us,<br>I'm sure 'twas as lucky for them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But , loyalty, truce! we're on dangerous ground;<br>Who knows how the fashions may alter?<br>The doctrine, to-day, that is loyalty sound,<br>To-morrow may bring us a halter!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I send you a trifle, a head of a bard,<br>A trifle scarce worthy your care;<br>But accept it, good Sir, as a mark of regard,<br>Sincere as a saint's dying prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now life's chilly evening dim shades on your eye,<br>And ushers the long dreary night:<br>But you, like the star that athwart gilds the sky,<br>Your course to the latest is bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116459" data-title="Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee de Robert Burns" data-description="Revered defender of beauteous Stuart,/Of Stuart, a name once respected;/A name, which to love was the mark of a true heart,/But now 'tis despis'd and neglected./Tho' something like moisture conglobes in my eye,/Let no one misdeem me disloyal;/A po..."></div> </div> </div>

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