CVI.
Reading edition
I MURDER HATE.
[These verses are to be found in a volume which may be alluded to without being named, in which many of Burns’s strains, some looser than these, are to be found.]
I.
I murder hate by field or flood, Tho’ glory’s name may screen us: In wars at hame I’ll spend my blood, Life-giving wars of Venus.
II.
The deities that I adore Are social Peace and Plenty, I’m better pleas’d to make one more, Than be the death of twenty.