Life is too short to repine, love,
Link your fair future in mine!
[THE TAM O' SHANTER CAP.]
Upon the Spa at Scarborough, the Minstrel was a panter—
He asked a Wilful Maiden why she wore a Tam o' Shanter?
She gazed upon his furrowed face, half doubting if he chaffed her,
Then, noting well his solemn mien, she answered thus, with laughter—
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