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ORIGINAL POEM BY BURNS.

\ V;Mr M'Ewan, MiP^ has just pve.settee'^to Edinburgh Free Library Burns' copy of Fergusson's poems, which has an original poem written . ... by Burns on a blank page at the .beginning, of tne book. The fol- , ibwing.are the words , of : the poem : .". , ;,' Jeremiah, xv chapter, 10th verse. I ' "Ah ,woe.is: me,; my mother dear, ''".'. '■ ''■"£. man pt .strife ye' ve bora me ; ' For fair oontenliidn I maim bear, ,-'.'■• : . : r They hkte, revile, and scorn me. ■ ' ■ • I ne'er could lend on bill or band t ; ':_■■; . j.That five per cent aright blast me ; . , And borrowing,. on the tither hand, !",,. . , :^e;deil a ane would trust me. „ .. . ..Yet la coiil-denyed wigbt, . ■'"' ' './By fortune quite discarded ; ; ... f ■;'. Ye see h'bw lam day and night By lad and lass blackguarded!.

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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 3

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125

ORIGINAL POEM BY BURNS. Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 3

ORIGINAL POEM BY BURNS. Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 3