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Poem by Robert Burns


Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed ‘The Marquis,’ Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him


Here lies a mock Marquis whose titles were shamm’d,
If ever he rise, it will be to be damn’d.

1794

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. Sleep’st Thou, or Wak’st Thou
  2. It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face
  3. Simmer’s a Pleasant Time
  4. Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
  5. The Bonnie Wee Thing


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