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EPITAPH ON WAT by ROBERT BURNS

Poet Analysis

First Line: SIC A REPTILE WAS WAT
Last Line: "AND HIS HEART IS RANK POISON!"" ANOTHER REPLIES."
Subject(s): HATE;

Sic a reptile was Wat, sic a miscreant slave,
That the worms ev'n damn'd him when laid in his grave;
"In his flesh there's a famine," a starved reptile cries,
"And his heart is rank poison!" another replies.



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