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Epitaph on the same

Robert Burns

HERE lies, now a prey to insulting neglect,
What once was a butterfly, gay in life’s beam:
Want only of wisdom denied her respect,
Want only of goodness denied her esteem.




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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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