Lines Inscribed in a Lady's Pocket Almanac

The speaker asks Heaven to live long enough to see wrongdoers suffer the pain they inflict, and calls for freedom to be shared until neither slaves nor despots remain.

By Robert Burns · Genre: Political Poetry, Abolitionist Literature · 49 words

First lines

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live, / To see the miscreants feel the pains they give; / Deal Freedom's sacred treasures free as air, / Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

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Genres

• Political Poetry — Four rhyming lines call for freedom and the disappearance of despots.
• Abolitionist Literature — The speaker calls for freedom to be distributed until slavery belongs to the past.

Tags

freedom · slavery · despotism · retribution · prayer

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• Work type: Poem
• Author: Robert Burns
• Date: Date unknown
• Language: English
• Genres: Political Poetry, Abolitionist Literature
• Length: 49 words
• Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs

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