LXV.
Reading edition
ON A SUICIDE.
[Burns was observed by my friend, Dr. Copland Hutchinson, to fix, one morning, a bit of paper on the grave of a person who had committed suicide: on the paper these lines were pencilled.]
Earth’d up here lies an imp o’ hell, Planted by Satan’s dibble— Poor silly wretch, he’s damn’d himsel’ To save the Lord the trouble.