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title: "Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church"
subtitle: "Who was looking up the text during sermon"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1787"
location: "Edinburgh"
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-to-miss-ainslie-in-church/"
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# Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church

### Who was looking up the text during sermon

## Poem
Fair maid, you need not take the hint,  
Nor idle texts pursue:  
’Twas guilty sinners that he meant,  
Not Angels such as you.

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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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