O WHY the deuce should I repine,
  And be an ill foreboder?
I’m twenty-three, and five feet nine,
  I’ll go and be a sodger!
 

I gat some gear wi’ mickle care,
  I held it weel thegither;
But now it’s gane, and something mair—
  I’ll go and be a sodger!

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Poet: Robert Burns
Poem: 23. 23. I’ll go and be a Sodger
Volume: Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year: Published/Written in 1782
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