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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER

Here Souter Hood in death does sleep:
In hell, if he's gane thither,
Satan, gie him thy gear to keep;
He'll haud it weel thegither.