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title: "Lines on John M’Murdo, ESQ"
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-on-john-mmurdo-esq/"
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# Lines on John M’Murdo, ESQ

## Poem
Blest be M’Murdo to his latest day!  
No envious cloud o’ercast his evening ray;  
No wrinkle, furrow’d by the hand of care,  
Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair!  
O may no son the father’s honour stain,  
Nor ever daughter give the mother pain!

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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/lines-on-john-mmurdo-esq/