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Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 505

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1795
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Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
505Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HERE Brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct, And empty all his barrels: He’s blest—if, as he brew’d, he drink, In upright, honest morals.

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