Nae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns

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Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

1791

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Topic

The only constant is change Passage of time Ocean and sea

Medium

Poem

Time

1791 Age of Enlightenment

Person

Robert Burns

Provenance

Current citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Original citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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