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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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ON ROBERT FERGUSSON

ON THE TOMBSTONE IN THE CANONGATE CHURCHYARD

HERE LIES ROBERT FERGUSSON BORN SEPT. 5TH, 1751 DIED OCT. 16TH, 1774

No sculptur'd Marble here, nor pompous lay,
No storied Urn nor animated Bust;
This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way
To pour her sorrow o'er the Poet's dust.