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Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 471

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1794
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
471Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

MAXWELL, if merit here you crave, That merit I deny; You save fair Jessie from the grave!— An Angel could not die!

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