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title: "Epitaph on My Own Friend and My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbolton Mill"
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-my-own-friend-and-my-fathers-friend-wm-muir-in-tarbolton-mill/"
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# Epitaph on My Own Friend and My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbolton Mill

## Poem
An honest man here lies at rest  
As e’er God with his image blest;  
The friend of man, the friend of truth,  
The friend of age, and guide of youth:  
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,  
Few heads with knowledge so informed:  
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;  
If there is none, he made the best of this.

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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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