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Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 167

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
167Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HERE lie Willie Michie’s banes; O Satan, when ye tak him, Gie him the schulin o’ your weans, For clever deils he’ll mak them!

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