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On Johnson's Opinion Of Hampden

  

Burns Original

Standard English Translation

 

For shame!
Let Folly and Knavery
Freedom oppose:
'Tis suicide, Genius,
To mix with her foes.

 

For shame!
Let Folly and Knavery
Freedom oppose:
It is suicide, Genius,
To mix with her foes.

 

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