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title: "Epigram on Parting with a Kind Host in the Highlands"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1787"
location: "Edinburgh"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/epigram-on-parting-with-a-kind-host-in-the-highlands/"
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# Epigram on Parting with a Kind Host in the Highlands

## Poem
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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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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