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. 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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