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BLESS Jesus Christ, O Cardonessp, With grateful, lifted eyes, Who taught that not the soul alone, But body too shall rise; For had He said “the soul alone From death I will deliver,” Alas, alas! O Cardoness, Then hadst thou lain for ever.
Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness)
475Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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