"Five tomahawks, wi’ blude red-rusted: Five scimitars, wi’ murder crusted; A garter which a babe had strangled: A knife, a father’s throat had mangled."
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Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" (wr. 1790; pub. 1791)
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