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title: "Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s"
subtitle: "Presented to the Author by a Lady"
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/inscribed-on-a-work-of-hannah-mores/"
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# Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s

### Presented to the Author by a Lady

## Poem
Thou flatt’ring mark of friendship kind,  
Still may thy pages call to mind  
The dear, the beauteous donor;  
Tho’ sweetly female ev’ry part,  
Yet such a head, and more the heart  
Does both the sexes honour:  
She show’d her taste refin’d and just,  
When she selected thee;  
Yet deviating, own I must,  
For sae approving me:  
But kind still I’ll mind still  
The giver in the gift;  
I’ll bless her, an’ wiss her  
A Friend aboon the lift.

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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/inscribed-on-a-work-of-hannah-mores/