On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs
1869-1905
These are the best of him,
Pathos and jest of him;
Earth holds the rest of him.
Passions were strong in him, --
Pardon the wrong in him;
Hark to the song in him! --
Each little lyrical
Grave or satirical
Musical miracle!
DayPoems Poem No. 1261
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1261.html">On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs by Frederic Lawrence Knowles</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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