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It's ye maun whustle for a breeze / Until the sails be fu'; / They bigg yon ships that ride the seas / To pleasure fowk like you.
For ye hae siller i' yer hand / And a' that gowd can buy, / But weary, in a weary land, / A gangerel-loon am I.