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The Calf

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/02/136
Alt. number
3.6302
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

The Calf by Robert Burns.

Begins: "Right, Sir ! your text I'll prove it true". It was written for the Rev. James Steven on the text of Malachi "And you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall". Written by Robert Burns on the birth of his twin children by Jean Armour in September.


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Hierarchy

  1. Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs ( )
  2. The Calf

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