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Poem by Robert Burns


On Seeing the Hon. Wm. R. Maule of Panmure Driving away in His Fine and Elegant Phaeton on the Race Ground at Tinwald Downs, October, 1794


Thou Fool, in thy phaeton towering,
Art proud when that phaeton is prais’d?  
’Tis the pride of a Thief’s exhibition
When higher his pillory’s rais’d.

October 1794

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. The Flowery Banks of Cree
  2. Farewell, Thou Stream
  3. The Day Returns
  4. As Down the Burn They Took Their Way
  5. Theniel Menzies’ Bonnie Mary


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