Epitaph On The Same Poem by Robert Burns

Epitaph On The Same



HERE lies, now a prey to insulting neglect,
What once was a butterfly, gay in life's beam:
Want only of wisdom denied her respect,
Want only of goodness denied her esteem.

Robert Burns
Saturday, October 25, 2014
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Aftab Alam Khursheed 25 October 2014

As the title so the poem so beautiful

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