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EPOGRAM; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT THE KING'S ARMS, DUMFRIES by ROBERT BURNS

Poet Analysis

First Line: YE MEN OF WIT AND WEALTH, WHY ALL THIS SNEERING
Last Line: WHAT ARE THEY, PRAY, BUT SPIRITUAL EXCISEMEN!
Subject(s): TAXES;

Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering
'Gainst poor Excisemen? Give the cause a hearing:
What are your Landlord's rent-rolls? Taxing ledgers!
What Premiers? What ev'n Monarchs? Mighty Gaugers!
Nay, what are Priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)
What are they, pray, but Spiritual Excisemen!



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