187. Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands

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187. Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands by Robert Burns

 WHEN Death’s dark stream I ferry o’er,
 (A time that surely shall come,)
In Heav’n itself I’ll ask no more,
 Than just a Highland welcome.

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