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Sae, ye observe that a’ this clatter Is naething but a “moonshine matter;” But tho’ dull prose-folk Latin splatter In logic tulzie, I hope we bardies ken some better Than mind sic brulzie.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

There was an honest poet once on earth Who beat all other bardies at a canter; Rob' Burns his mother called him at his birth.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

Sae, ye observe that a' this clatter Is naething but a "moonshine matter"; But tho' dull prose-folk Latin splatter In logic tulyie, I hope we bardies ken some better Than mind sic brulyie.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

I hear loud voices and a clamorous throng With braying bugles and with bragging drums— Bards and bardies laboring at a song.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

We saw where the woman had dug out bardies from the roots of a wattle, where the buck had unearthed a rat, and where together they had chased a lizard.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford