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Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 165

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
165Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

CEASE, ye prudes, your envious railing, Lovely Burns has charms—confess: True it is, she had one failing, Had a woman ever less?

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