Take this advice of mine, dear ma’am,
Cut friends of auld lang syne;—
The twaddling sage who tells one’s age,
Is—friend of auld lang syne!
By Lady Clarke, in “The Comic Offering” for 1832. London. Smith, Elder & Co.
A Song for Small Germans, in 1871.
Ye German Princes puir an’ proud,
You sae do Commerce scorn,
Ye wadna hae Louise allowed