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

420 . Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.

BLEST be M’Murdo to his latest day!

No envious cloud o’ercast his evening ray;

No wrinkle, furrow’d by the hand of care,

Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair!

O may no son the father’s honour stain,

Nor ever daughter give the mother pain!