181. Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

181. Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic

My imprudent lines were answered, very petulantly, by somebody, I believe, a Rev. Mr. Hamilton. In a MS., where I met the answer, I wrote below:—


WITH Esop’s lion, Burns says: Sore I feel
Each other’s scorn, but damn that ass’ heel!