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title: "Divine Service in the Kirk of Lamington"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1791"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/divine-service-in-the-kirk-of-lamington/"
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# Divine Service in the Kirk of Lamington

## Poem
As cauld a wind as ever blew,  
A cauld kirk, an in’t but few:  
As cauld a minister’s e’er spak;  
Ye’se a’ be het e’er I come back.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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