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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

502 . Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter

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.