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.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

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