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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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TO JOHN KENNEDY

A Farewell

Farewell, dear friend! may guid luck hit you,
And 'mong her favourites admit you!
If e'er Detraction shore to smit you,
May nane believe him!
And onie deil that thinks to get you,
Good Lord, deceive him!