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Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 196

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
196Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HONEST 1 Will to Heaven’s away And mony shall lament him; His fau’ts they a’ in Latin lay, In English nane e’er kent them.

Note 1. Of the Edinburgh High School.

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