[EPITAPH] ON WEE JOHNIE. Hic jacet wee Johnie. Robert Burns Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T91548 Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURNS. Kilmarnock printed by John Wilson, M,DCC,LXXXVI. 1786 p. 232. 240p.; 8⁰.

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[ EPITAPH ] ON WEE JOHNIE . Hic jacet wee Johnie . Whoe'er thou art , O reader , know , That Death has murder'd Johnie ; An' here his body lies fu' low — For saul he ne'er had ony .