Written Under The Picture of the Celebrated Miss Burns
Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing, Lovely Burns has charms - confess; True it is, she had one failing, Had ae woman ever less?
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Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing, Lovely Burns has charms - confess; True it is, she had one failing, Had ae woman ever less?
This is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1787 and is read here by Cal Macaninch.
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