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To Burns
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy (1890)
Old friend!--I always loved thee;
In childhood's early days,
Delighted I would listen
With laughter to thy lays.
And better still I loved thee,
To riper boyhood grown;
Because thou wert the pride of
The land that's part my own.
But with devotion deepened
I greet thee now anew,
Of love, because thou singest
So simple, sweet, and true.
Codex Note
The book adds that it was suggested, on returning home for the holidays, by an old portrait of Burns hanging in the poet's room.
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MLA
MacKeracher, William M. “To Burns.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mackeracher/28/.
Chicago
MacKeracher, William M. “To Burns.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mackeracher/28/.
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