XLIV.
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WRITTEN IN A LADY’S POCKET-BOOK.
[That Burns loved liberty and sympathized with those who were warring in its cause, these lines, and hundreds more, sufficiently testify.]
Grant me, indulgent Heav’n, that I may live To see the miscreants feel the pains they give, Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air, Till slave and despot be but things which were.