Living

Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling

by Robert Burns 1759–1796

From Poems and Songs, 1787

Living

Here Stuarts once in glory reigned,
And laws for Scotland’s weal ordained;
But now unroof’d their palace stands,
Their sceptre’s sway’d by other hands;
Fallen indeed, and to the earth
Whence groveling reptiles take their birth.
The injured Stuart line is gone,
A race outlandish fills their throne;
An idiot race, to honour lost;
Who know them best despise them most.

MLA

Burns, Robert. “Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/178/.

Chicago

Burns, Robert. “Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/178/.

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