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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

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THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY

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THE TOADEATER

Of Lordly acquaintance you boast,
And the Dukes that you dined with yestreen,
Yet an insect's an insect at most,
Tho' it crawl on the curl of a Queen!