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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

471 . Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery

MAXWELL, if merit here you crave,

That merit I deny;

You save fair Jessie from the grave!—

An Angel could not die!