The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer  23237

Locations in Harold's Library

• The Canongate Burns (book)
  • page 19
  • in "The Kilmarnock Edition, 1786"
  • Notes: followed by extensive notes

This work has the following connections with other works:

• ‘O fairest of all creation, last and best’ … ‘How art thou lost …’ • Milton parodied by Burns in epigraph "Dearest of distillation! last and best — / — How art thou lost!"

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