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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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133

TO PETER STUART

Dear Peter, dear Peter,
We poor sons of metre
Are often negleckit, ye ken:
For instance your sheet, man
(Tho' glad I'm to see't, man),
I get it no ae day in ten.