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Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Age: 52 †
Born: 1813
Born: June 21
Died: 1865
Died: August 4
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Lawyer
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Novelist
Poet
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University Teacher
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Layman of the church
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Angry
Whence
Better
Judgment
Bare
Bracken
Wells
Broken
Seat
Bier
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Lift
Heather
Hard
Leave
Seats
Ascended
Lying
Lifts
Heathers
Half
Fell
Sod
Cannot
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Trampled

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