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A Grace after Meat

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 412

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1793
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
412Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

LORD, we thank, and thee adore, For temporal gifts we little merit; At present we will ask no more— Let William Hislop give the spirit.

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