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Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns

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Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/01/122
Alt. number
3.6357
Date
25 June 1794
On display
Yes
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns.

Begins: "No spartan tube, no Attic shell". The last 18 lines. Here, Robert portrays Washington as an American William Wallace – ridding his country of the ‘iron rod’ of English rule – and wonders where a new Scottish liberator might come from.


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  1. Letters from and to Robert Burns ( )
  2. Ode For General Washington's Birthday, by Robert Burns

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