Living
Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
From Poems and Songs, 1786
Living
Farewell, dear friend! may guid luck hit you,
And ’mang her favourites admit you:
If e’er Detraction shore to smit you,
May nane believe him,
And ony deil that thinks to get you,
Good Lord, deceive him!
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Burns, Robert. “Lines To Mr. John Kennedy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/124/.
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Burns, Robert. “Lines To Mr. John Kennedy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/124/.
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