Epigram to Miss Jean Scott

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
175Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

O HAD each Scot of ancient times Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art; The bravest heart on English ground Had yielded like a coward.

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