FRAGMENT ON SENSIBILITY_POEMS AND SONGS BY ROBERT BURNS

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FRAGMENT ON SENSIBILITY

RUSTICITY'S ungainly form

May cloud the highest mind;

But when the heart is nobly warm,

The good excuse will find.

Propriety's cold, cautious rules

Warm fervour may o'erlook:

But spare poor sensibility

Th' ungentle, harsh rebuke.

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