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title: "To the Beautiful Miss Eliza J—N"
subtitle: "On her Principles of Liberty and Equality"
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-the-beautiful-miss-eliza-j-n/"
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# To the Beautiful Miss Eliza J—N

### On her Principles of Liberty and Equality

## Poem
How, Liberty! girl, can it be by thee nam’d?  
Equality too! hussey, art not asham’d?  
Free and Equal indeed, while mankind thou enchainest,  
And over their hearts a proud Despot so reignest.

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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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