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Poets/Robert Burns/Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh

Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 166

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
166Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain, For few sic feasts you’ve gotten; And fix your claws in Nicol’s heart, For deil a bit o’t’s rotten.

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