Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
154 . Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait
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And yet can starve the author of the pleasure.
O thou, my elder brother in misfortune,
By far my elder brother in the Muses,
With tears I pity thy unhappy fate!
Why is the Bard unpitied by the world,
Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures?