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Epitaph on William Hood, Senior

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 35

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1784
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
35Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HERE Souter Hood in death does sleep; To hell if he’s gane thither, Satan, gie him thy gear to keep; He’ll haud it weel thegither.

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