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Epigram on Miss Davies

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 323

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1791
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
323Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

ASK why God made the gem so small? And why so huge the granite?— Because God meant mankind should set That higher value on it.

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