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title: "To Dr. Maxwell"
subtitle: "On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery"
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/to-dr-maxwell/"
---

# To Dr. Maxwell

### On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery

## Poem
Maxwell, if merit here you crave,  
That merit I deny;  
You save fair Jessie from the grave!—  
An Angel could not die!

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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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