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ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born near four miles from nith-head
Last Line: Yet never was a married wife.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Self; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


I was born near four miles from Nith-head,
Where fourteen years I got my bread;
My learning it can soon be told,
Ten weeks when I was seven years old
With a good old religious wife,
Who liv'd a quiet and sober life;
Indeed she took of me more pains
Than some does now of forty bairns.
With my attention, and her skill,
I read the Bible no that ill;
And when I grew a wee thought mair,
I read when I had time to spare.
But a' the whole tract of my time,
I found myself inclin'd to rhyme;
When I see merry company,
I sing a song with mirth and glee,
And sometimes I the whisky pree,
But 'deed its best to let it be.
A' my faults I will not tell,
I scarcely ken them a' mysel;
I've come thro' various scenes of life,
Yet never was a married wife.





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