XLI.
Reading edition
INSCRIPTION ON A GOBLET.
[Written on a dinner-goblet by the hand of Burns. Syme, exasperated at having his set of crystal defaced, threw the goblet under the grate: it was taken up by his clerk, and it is still preserved as a curiosity.]
There’s death in the cup—sae beware! Nay, more—there is danger in touching; But wha can avoid the fell snare? The man and his wine’s sae bewitching!