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title: "Per Contra"
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/per-contra/"
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# Per Contra

## Poem
Go, Fame, an’ canter like a filly  
Thro’ a’ the streets an’ neuks o’ Killie;  
Tell ev’ry social honest billie  
To cease his grievin’;  
For, yet unskaithed by Death’s gleg gullie.  
Tam Samson’s leevin’!

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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/per-contra/