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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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Volume I
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KILMARNOCK 1786
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EPITAPHS
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ADDED, EDINBURGH 1787
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ADDED, EDINBURGH 1793
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Volume II
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VOLUME IV

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JESSIE'S ILLNESS

Say, sages, what's the charm on earth
Can turn Death's dart aside?
It is not purity and worth,
Else Jessie had not died!
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