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ON A SWEARING COXCOMB by ROBERT BURNS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE CURSING, SWEARING BURTON LIES
Last Line: "AND HIS LAST WORDS WERE ""DEM MY BLOOD!"
Subject(s): FOOLS; IDIOTS;
Here cursing, swearing Burton lies,
A buck, a beau, or "Dem my eyes!"
Who in his life did little good,
And his last words were "Dem my blood!"



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