Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleas’d,
And yet can starve the author of the pleasure!
O thou my elder brother in misfortune,
By far my elder brother in the muse,
With tears I pity thy unhappy fate!
Why is the bard unpitied by the world,
Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures?
Locations in Harold's Library
- The Canongate Burns (book) with the title "On Robert Fergusson – I"
- page 648
- in "Posthumous Works"
- The Book of St Andrews (book) with the title "Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Fergusson, the Poet"
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