The poem
O HAD the malt thy strength of mind, Or hops the flavour of thy wit, ’Twere drink for first of human kind, A gift that e’en for Syme were fit.JERUSALEM TAVERN, DUMFRIES.
Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter
502Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Keep reading
Discover more of Robert Burns’s poetry.
Readers