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Poem by Robert Burns


On a Friend


AN honest man here lies at rest,
As e’er God with his image blest;
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.

1783

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. The Day Returns
  2. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
  3. Peg-A-Ramsey
  4. My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing
  5. Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame


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