Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
309 . Verses on Captain Grose
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If he’s amang his friends or foes?—Iram, coram, dago.
Or haudin Sarah by the wame?—Iram, coram dago. Or drowned in the river Forth?—Iram, coram dago. And eaten like a wether haggis?—Iram, coram, dago. As for the deil, he daur na steer him.—Iram, coram, dago. Which will oblige your humble debtor.—Iram, coram, dago. The very stanes that Adam bore.—Iram, coram, dago, The coins o’ Satan’s coronation!—Iram coram dago.