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I've kept auld Doom in times o' rowth and splendour, and noo I'm spared to see't rouped, the laird a dyvour and a nameless wanderer ower the face o' the earth.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
O what a canty world were it, Would pain and care and sickness spare it; And Fortune favour worth and merit As they deserve; And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret, Syne, wha wad starve?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I will play the “Cumhadh na Cloinne” Wildest of the rowth of tunes Gathered by the love of mortal From the olden druid runes.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
Tho' I should wander Terra o'er, In all her climes, Grant me but this, I ask no more, Aye rowth o' rhymes.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
When the fairy was at my cradle-side and gave my mother choice of my gifts, I wish she had chosen rowth of real friends.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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