Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
23 . Ill go and be a Sodger
O
And be an ill foreboder?
I’m twenty-three, and five feet nine,
I’ll go and be a sodger!
I held it weel thegither; But now it’s gane, and something mair— I’ll go and be a sodger!