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Commoners of Air

Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet

Robert Burns reminds us of the pleasures to be had if we were to wander out and take the air, in this short phrase taken from his poem 'Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet'. To be fixed to a door maybe.

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