Poem by Anonymous

To a Worn-Out Author

When next you’re in print, Ned, for money or fame,
Be advis’d by a friend, let the work want your name: 
For whoever in that should unluckily look,
And remembers your last, will ne’er open the book.

1. Ettrick Banks
2. The Flower of Yarrow
3. Gathering of Atholl
4. Fare Ye Weel, My Auld Wife
5. Carlisle Yetts

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