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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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ON A SUICIDE

Here lies in earth a root of Hell
Set by the Deil's ain dibble:
This worthless body damn'd himsel
To save the Lord the trouble.