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title: "Epigram on the Laird of Laggan"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
location: "Dumfries"
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-the-laird-of-laggan/"
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# Epigram on the Laird of Laggan

## Poem
When Morine, deceas’d, to the Devil went down,  
’Twas nothing would serve him but Satan’s own crown;  
“Thy fool’s head,” quoth Satan, “that crown shall wear never,  
I grant thou’rt as wicked, but not quite so clever.”

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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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