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title: "To Mr. Thomson"
author: "Robert Burns"
recipient: "Mr. Thomson"
letter_number: 316
roman: "CCCXVI"
source: "Project Gutenberg #18500 — The Complete Works of Robert Burns (ed. Allan Cunningham)"
editor: "Allan Cunningham"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18500/pg18500.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/letters/316-to-thomson/"
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# To Mr. Thomson

## Editor's note
In the double service of poesy and music the poet had to sing of pangs which he never endured, from beauties to whom he had never spoken.

— Allan Cunningham

## Letter
FORLORN my love, no comfort near, &c.[284]

How do you like the foregoing? I have written it within this hour: so much for the speed of my Pegasus; but what say you to his bottom?

R. B.

## Footnotes
284. Song CCLVIII.

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