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Had there not been some recompence
To comfort those that mourn.
O Death ! the poor man’s dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest!
The Great, the Wealthy, fear thy blow,
From pomp and pleasure torn ;
But Oh ! a blest relief to those
That weary-laden mourn.
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Had there not been some recompence
To comfort those that mourn.
O Death ! the poor man’s dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest!
The Great, the Wealthy, fear thy blow,
From pomp and pleasure torn ;
But Oh ! a blest relief to those
That weary-laden mourn.
F 1 N I &
■ -1
V',
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Apparitions > Aloway Kirk, or, Tam o' Shanter, a tale > (24) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/109906239 |
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| Description | And Man was made to mourn, a poem, with a sketch of Burns's life &c. by Robert Burns, the Ayrshire poet. Ayr : Printed and sold by D. Macarter & Co., 1817. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2791(4) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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