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title: "Epigram on Miss Davies"
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/epigram-on-miss-davies/"
---

# Epigram on Miss Davies

## Preface
On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A—so big.

## Poem
Ask why God made the gem so small?  
And why so huge the granite?—  
Because God meant mankind should set  
That higher value on it.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/epigram-on-miss-davies/