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title: "The Wren’s Nest"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
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/the-wrens-nest/"
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# The Wren’s Nest

## Poem
The Robin to the Wren’s nest  
Cam keekin’ in, cam keekin’ in;  
O weel’s me on your auld pow,  
Wad ye be in, wad ye be in?  
Thou’s ne’er get leave to lie without,  
And I within, and I within,  
Sae lang’s I hae an auld clout  
To rowe ye in, to rowe ye in.

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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-wrens-nest/