23. I’ll go and be a Sodger. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

23. I’ll go and be a Sodger


O WHY the deuce should I repine,
And be an ill foreboder?
I’m twenty-three, and five feet nine,
I’ll go and be a sodger!

I gat some gear wi’ mickle care,	5
I held it weel thegither;
But now it’s gane, and something mair—
I’ll go and be a sodger!