John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;
Blot out the epic's stately rhyme,
But spare his "Highland Mary!"


Line on Burns, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So Bonnie Doon but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So Bonnie Doon but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So Bonnie Doon but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So Bonnie Doon but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his Highland Mary!