Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
187Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

WHEN Death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, (A time that surely shall come,) In Heav’n itself I’ll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.

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