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

451 . Epitaph on the same

HERE lies, now a prey to insulting neglect,

What once was a butterfly, gay in life’s beam:

Want only of wisdom denied her respect,

Want only of goodness denied her esteem.