Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
77 . Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
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What was his religion?
Whae’er desires to ken,
To some other warl’
Maun follow the carl,
For here Johnie Pigeon had nane!
Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory.