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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

406 . Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack

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.