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

Robert Burns

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.




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