Living
Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac
From Poems and Songs, 1793
Living
Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.
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Burns, Robert. “Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/401/.
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Burns, Robert. “Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/401/.
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