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

354 . Epigram—The Toad-eater

OF Lordly acquaintance you boast,

And the Dukes that you dined wi’ yestreen,

Yet an insect’s an insect at most,

Tho’ it crawl on the curl of a Queen!