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Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 476

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1794
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
476Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

WE grant they’re thine, those beauties all, So lovely in our eye; Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness, For others to enjoy!

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