Written With The Supposed View OfBeing 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.
1784 · Poem
Lines on the Author’s Death
- Year
- 1784
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Mossgiel
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns