A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1793 · Poem

Epigrams Against the Earl of Galloway


What dost thou in that mansion fair?Flit, Galloway, and findSome narrow, dirty, dungeon cave,The picture of thy mind.
No Stewart art thou, Galloway,The Stewarts ’ll were brave;Besides, the Stewarts were but fools,Not one of them a knave.
Bright ran thy line, O Galloway,Thro’ many a far-fam’d sire!So ran the far-famed Roman way,And ended in a mire.
Spare me thy vengeance, Galloway!In quiet let me live:I ask no kindness at thy hand,For thou hast none to give.
Year
1793
Form
Poem
Location
Dumfries
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns