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Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

Frederic Lawrence Knowles

On a Fly-Leaf of Burns’ Songs

THESE are the best of him,

Pathos and jest of him;

Earth holds the rest of him.

Passions were strong in him,—

Pardon the wrong in him;

Hark to the song in him!—

Each little lyrical

Grave or satirical

Musical miracle!