To the beautiful Miss Eliza J - - n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
472Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

HOW, Liberty! girl, can it be by thee nam’d? Equality too! hussey, art not asham’d? Free and Equal indeed, while mankind thou enchainest, And over their hearts a proud Despot so reignest.

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