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What fire does, according to the poet (5)

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burns

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'the poet' is the definition.
(Scottish poet Robert Burns)

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(Other definitions for burns that I've seen before include "Is on fire" , "Rabbie - - (poet)" , "What Tyger does for Blake" , "Cremates -- Scottish poet, d.1796" , "Scots poet" .)

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