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On A Fly-Leaf Of Burns’ Songs

Frederic Lawrence Knowles

These are the best of him,
Pathos and jest of him;
Earth holds the rest of him.

Passions were strong in him,—
Pardon the wrong in him;
Hark to the song in him!—

Each little lyrical
Grave or satirical
Musical miracle!

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From The Little Book of Modern Verse | 1913

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