Epigram on Politics

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
393Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

IN Politics if thou would’st mix, And mean thy fortunes be; Bear this in mind, be deaf and blind, Let great folk hear and see.

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