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title: "Thanksgiving for a National Victory"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
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/thanksgiving-for-a-national-victory/"
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# Thanksgiving for a National Victory

## Poem
Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks?  
To murder men and give God thanks!  
Desist, for shame!—proceed no further;  
God won’t accept your thanks for Murther!

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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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