Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;
Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme,
But spare his "Highland Mary!"
--
Line on Burns, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).John Greenleaf Whittier
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