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title: "Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
location: "Dumfries"
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/inscription-to-miss-graham-of-fintry/"
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# Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry

## Poem
Here, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives,  
In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined,  
Accept the gift; though humble he who gives,  
Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.

So may no ruffian-feeling in my breast,  
Discordant, jar thy bosom-chords among;  
But Peace attune thy gentle soul to rest,  
Or Love, ecstatic, wake his seraph song,

Or Pity’s notes, in luxury of tears,  
As modest Want the tale of woe reveals;  
While conscious Virtue all the strains endears,  
And heaven-born Piety her sanction seals.

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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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