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Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh

by Robert Burns, 1787

Ye maggots, feed on Nicol's brain,
  For few sic feasts you've gotten;
And fix your claws in Nicol's heart,
  For deil a bit o't's rotten.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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