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Epigram - The Keekin Glass

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 356

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1791
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
356Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HOW daur ye ca’ me “Howlet-face”? Ye blear-e’ed, withered spectre! Ye only spied the keekin-glass, An’ there ye saw your picture.

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