53. Lines on the Author’s Death. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

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

53. Lines on the Author’s Death

Written with the Supposed View of Being Handed to Rankine after the Poet’s Interment


HE who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead,
And a green grassy hillock hides his head;
Alas! alas! a devilish change indeed.