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To Burns.

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Suggested on returning home for my holidays by an old portrait of the poet, which hangs in my room.         Old friend! - I always loved thee;             In childhood's early days,         Delighted I would listen             With laughter to thy lays.         And better still I loved thee,             To riper boyhood grown;         Because thou wert the pride of             The land that's part my own.         But with devotion deepened             I greet thee now anew,         Of love, because thou singest             So simple, sweet, and true.

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