I’m now arrived—thanks to the gods!—Thro’ pathways rough and muddy,A certain sign that makin roadsIs no this people’s study:Altho’ Im not wi’ Scripture cram’d,I’m sure the Bible saysThat heedless sinners shall be damn’d,Unless they mend their ways.
1786 · Poem
Epigram on Rough Roads
Footnotes
- 1. A compliment to the Montgomeries of Coilsfield, on the Feal or Faile, a tributary of the Ayr.
- 2. Mrs. Stewart of Stair, an early patroness of the poet.
- 3. The house of Professor Dugald Stewart.
- Year
- 1786
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Mossgiel
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns