Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie”

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
121Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

WHOE’ER thou art, O reader, know That Death has murder’d Johnie; An’ here his body lies fu’ low; For saul he ne’er had ony.

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