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title: "Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
location: "Dumfries"
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/lines-sent-with-a-present-of-a-dozen-of-porter/"
---

# Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter

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