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Written With A Pencil in A Tap-Room

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This warl's a tap-room owre and owre,
    Whaur ilk ane tak's his caper;
Some taste the sweet, some drink the sour,
    As waiter Fate sees proper;
Let mankind live, ae social core,
    An drap a' selfish quarr'lling,
And whan the Landlord ca's his score,
    May ilk ane's clink be sterling.

Robert Tannahill

Selected by the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh.

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