inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
503Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

THERE’S Death in the cup, so beware! Nay, more—there is danger in touching; But who can avoid the fell snare, The man and his wine’s so bewitching!

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