To the Shade of Burns  24577

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    Mute is thy wild hard, now, O Bard sublime!
         Who, amid Scotia's mountain solitude,
    Great Nature taught to "build the lofty rhyme,"
         And even beneath the daily pressure, rude,
    Of labouring Poverty, thy generous blood,
    Fired with the love of freedom—Not subdued
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  • Lycidas • line 3 of Smith quotes Milton's "build the lofty rhyme"
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