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title: "On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat"
subtitle: "Belonging to the same Laird"
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/on-being-shewn-a-beautiful-country-seat/"
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# On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat

### Belonging to the same Laird

## Poem
We grant they’re thine, those beauties all,  
So lovely in our eye;  
Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness,  
For others to enjoy!

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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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