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Burns: Epitaphs
EPITAPH ON JOHN DOVE
Innkeeper, Mauchline
Here lies Johnny Pidgeon;
What was his religion?
Wha e'er desires to ken,
To some other warP
Maun follow the carl,
For here Johnny Pidgeon had nane!
Strong ale was ablution,
Small beer persecution,
A dram was memento mori;
But a full flowing bowl
Was the saving his soul,
And port was celestial glory.
ROBERT BURNS
EPITAPH ON A SCHOOLMASTER
In Cleish Parish, Kinross-shire
Here lie Willie Michie's banes;
O Satan, when ye tak him,
Gie him the schoolin' of your weans,
For clever deils he'll mak them!
ROBERT BURNS
ON ELPHINSTON'S TRANSLATION OF
MARTIAL
O thou whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turned out of doors,
Heard'st thou that groan?—proceed no further,
'Twas laurePd Martial roaring murther.
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ROBERT BURNS