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title: "Epitaph on a Lap-Dog"
subtitle: "Named Echo"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/epitaph-on-a-lap-dog/"
---

# Epitaph on a Lap-Dog

### Named Echo

## Poem
In wood and wild, ye warbling throng,  
Your heavy loss deplore;  
Now, half extinct your powers of song,  
Sweet Echo is no more.

Ye jarring, screeching things around,  
Scream your discordant joys;  
Now, half your din of tuneless sound  
With Echo silent lies.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/epitaph-on-a-lap-dog/