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title: "Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruikshank"
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/epitaph-for-mr-w-cruikshank/"
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# Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruikshank

## Poem
Honest Will to Heaven’s away  
And mony shall lament him;  
His fau’ts they a’ in Latin lay,  
In English nane e’er kent them.

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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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