Epitaph on a Lap-dog

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
421Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

IN wood and wild, ye warbling throng, Your heavy loss deplore; Now, half extinct your powers of song, Sweet Echo is no more.

Ye jarring, screeching things around, Scream your discordant joys; Now, half your din of tuneless sound With Echo silent lies.

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