Arts & Sciences
Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
From Poems and Songs, 1792
Arts & Sciences
Ill-fated genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson!
What heart that feels and will not yield a tear,
To think Life’s sun did set e’er well begun
To shed its influence on thy bright career.
O why should truest Worth and Genius pine
Beneath the iron grasp of Want and Woe,
While titled knaves and idiot—Greatness shine
In all the splendour Fortune can bestow?
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Burns, Robert. “Lines On Fergusson, The Poet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/360/.
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Burns, Robert. “Lines On Fergusson, The Poet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/360/.
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