Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Daily Dose


From Burns: Poems, edited by Gerard Carruthers

WORTH AND GENIUS

"O, why should truest Worth and Genius pine
Beneath the iron grasp of Want and Woe,
While titled knaves and idiot-greatness shine
In all the splendour Fortune can bestow?"

From Lines on Fergusson, the Poet

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