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Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 508

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1795
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
508Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

TO Riddell, much lamented man, This ivied cot was dear; Wandr’er, dost value matchless worth? This ivied cot revere.

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