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| Title | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2. köide Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Robert Burns |
| Author | Robert Burns |
| Publisher | Adam Neill and Company, 1800 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 14 dets. 2006 |
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