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title: "Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1784"
location: "Mossgiel"
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-on-james-grieve-laird-of-boghead-tarbolton/"
---

# Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton

## Poem
Here lies Boghead amang the dead  
In hopes to get salvation;  
But if such as he in Heav’n may be,  
Then welcome, hail! damnation.

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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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