Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
119Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

KNOW thou, O stranger to the fame Of this much lov’d, much honoured name! (For none that knew him need be told) A warmer heart death ne’er made cold.

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