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title: "Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
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/lines-inscribed-in-a-ladys-pocket-almanac/"
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# Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac

## Poem
Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,  
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;  
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,  
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

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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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