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Poem by Robert Burns


Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat


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

1791

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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