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title: "The Belles of Mauchline"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1784"
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/the-belles-of-mauchline/"
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# The Belles of Mauchline

## Poem
In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,  
The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a’;  
Their carriage and dress, a stranger would guess,  
In Lon’on or Paris, they’d gotten it a’.

Miss Miller is fine, Miss Markland’s divine,  
Miss Smith she has wit, and Miss Betty is braw:  
There’s beauty and fortune to get wi’ Miss Morton,  
But Armour’s the jewel for me o’ them a’.

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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/the-belles-of-mauchline/