The Bard at Inverary

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
174Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

WHOE’ER he be that sojourns here, I pity much his case, Unless he comes to wait upon The Lord their God, His Grace.

There’s naething here but Highland pride, And Highland scab and hunger: If Providence has sent me here, ’Twas surely in his anger.

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