144. On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs by Frederic Lawrence Knowles. Rittenhouse, Jessie B., ed. 1917. The Little Book of Modern Verse

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

144. On a Fly-Leaf of Burns’ Songs

By Frederic Lawrence Knowles


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;	5
Hark to the song in him!—

Each little lyrical
Grave or satirical
Musical miracle!

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