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title: "Epitaph on “Wee Johnie”"
subtitle: "Hic Jacet wee Johnie"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1786"
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-wee-johnie/"
---

# Epitaph on “Wee Johnie”

### Hic Jacet wee Johnie

## Poem
Whoe’er thou art, O reader, know  
That Death has murder’d Johnie;  
An’ here his body lies fu’ low;  
For saul he ne’er had ony.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/epitaph-on-wee-johnie/