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Poem by Robert Burns


Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars


SAY, Sages, what ‘a the charm on earth
  Can turn Death’s dart aside?
It is not purity and worth,
  Else Jessy had not died.

1796

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. The Day Returns
  2. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
  3. Peg-A-Ramsey
  4. My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing
  5. Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame


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