Frederic Lawrence Knowles: On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs

Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs

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;
Hark to the song in him! —

Each little lyrical
Grave or satirical
Musical miracle!

Arthur Upson: After a Dolmetsch Concert

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