Living
Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling
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.
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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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