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Lines on the Author’s Death

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 53

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1784
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
53Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HE who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead, And a green grassy hillock hides his head; Alas! alas! a devilish change indeed.

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