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“Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"”
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- Source:
- Lines on Burns.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3e8010ae1abc33cd33c29b8f56c2bcfda5de7807a0e0b737e4a6223fc750fcf6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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