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God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen.
God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen.
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Burns. · page_127
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