The poem
THE POOR man weeps—here Gavin sleeps, Whom canting wretches blam’d; But with such as he, where’er he be, May I be sav’d or d—d!
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
120Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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