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Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell

by Robert Burns, 1794

Sic a reptile was Wat, sic a miscreant slave,
That the worms ev'n d—d him when laid in his grave;
"In his flesh there's a famine," a starved reptile cries,
"And his heart is rank poison!" another replies.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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