Compliments Of John Syme Of Ryedale

Lines sent with a Present of 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.

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