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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

[epigraph]

PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE THEATRE OF DUMFRIES

SCOTS PROLOGUE FOR MRS. SUTHERLAND

THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN

ADDRESS

POLITICAL PIECES

THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY

III.

IV.

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ON THANKSGIVING FOR A NATIONAL VICTORY

Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks?
To murder men, and give God thanks?
Desist for shame! Proceed no further:
God won't accept your thanks for Murther.