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Epitaph on James Grieve

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 36

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1784
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Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
36Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HERE lies Boghead amang the dead In hopes to get salvation; But if such as he in Heav’n may be, Then welcome, hail! damnation.

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