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Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 170

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1787
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
170Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

FAIR maid, you need not take the hint, Nor idle texts pursue: ’Twas guilty sinners that he meant, Not Angels such as you.

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