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title: "On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe"
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-wm-graham-esq-of-mossknowe/"
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# On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe

## Poem
“Stop thief!” dame Nature call’d to Death,  
As Willy drew his latest breath;  
How shall I make a fool again?  
My choicest model thou hast ta’en.

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