Poem by Robert Burns

To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig’s Recovery

MAXWELL, if merit here you crave,
  That merit I deny:
"You" save fair Jessy from the grave?
  An Angel could not die.

1. Verses Addressed to J. Rankine
2. Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet’s Decease
3. Tam Glen
4. To John Taylor
5. Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb

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