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Versified Reply to an Invitation

by Robert Burns, 1786

Sir,
yours this moment I unseal,
  And faith I'm gay and hearty!
To tell the truth and shame the deil,
  I am as fou as Bartie:
But Foorsday, sir, my promise leal,
  Expect me o' your partie,
If on a beastie I can speel,
  Or hurl in a cartie.

Yours,


robert burns.

mauchlin, Monday night, 10 o'clock.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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