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Description: | This Poem is subtitled by Burns 'brother to a young lady, a particular friend to the author'. The lady in question was Isabella McLeod whom Burns had met in Edinburgh and whose brother's death by suicide he had seen reported in a newspaper and moved him to write this sad poem. (poem no 162)
John McLeod of Raasay died on 20th July 1787 within a year of his father's death. Burns originally sent these lines from Mossgiel but here they have been copied out on a later occasion on pages 6 & 7 of this collection of poems.
In page one Burns imagines the early joy Isabella will have had in her brother's companionship and the hurt and sadness brought about by his untimely passing. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'On the death of J | Go to resource |
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