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Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 181

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
181Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

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WITH Esop’s lion, Burns says: Sore I feel Each other’s scorn, but damn that ass’ heel!

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