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title: "On Seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico"
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-seeing-mrs-kemble-in-yarico/"
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# On Seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico

## Poem
Kemble, thou cur’st my unbelief  
For Moses and his rod;  
At Yarico’s sweet nor of grief  
The rock with tears had flow’d.

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