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The Copper Kettle: - a Fable and an application
"Some books are lies from end to end.
"And some great lies were never penned.
"E'en ministers they have been kenned
"In holy rapture,
"Great lies and nonsense raith to vend
"And nail't wi' Scripture.
"But this that I am gaun to tell,
"Which lately on a day befell,
"Is just as true's the Deil's in hell
"Or Dublin city:
"That e'er he nearer comes oursel'
"'S a muckle pity.
Robert Burns
The Fable
A Bishop, while out in his diocese rambling,
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