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title: "Lines to Mr. John Kennedy"
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/lines-to-mr-john-kennedy/"
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# Lines to Mr. John Kennedy

## Poem
Farewell, dear friend! may guid luck hit you,  
And ’mang her favourites admit you:  
If e’er Detraction shore to smit you,  
May nane believe him,  
And ony deil that thinks to get you,  
Good Lord, deceive him!

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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-to-mr-john-kennedy/