Jessy Lewars (Mrs Thomson)
Jessy Lewars was a friend and neighbour of Robert Burns and
Jean Armour. She assisted Jean in nursing Burns in his final
illness.
Jessy was musical and Burns wrote songs to the music she
played.
Burns penned Inscription to Jessy Lewars just a month
before his death:
Thine be the volumes, Jessy fair,
And with them take the Poet's prayer,
That fate may, in her fairest page,
With ev'ry kindliest, best presage
Of future bliss, enrol thy name:
With native worth and spotless fame,
And wakeful caution, still aware
Of ill - but chief, Man's felon snare;
All blameless joys on earth we find,
And all the treasures of the mind -
These be thy guardian and reward;
So prays thy faithful friend, the Bard.
Part of the James McKie Collection.
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EAFA255n
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J Irvine A.R.S.A.
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East Ayrshire Council
