Explore "Lines to John M'Murdo, Esq. of Drumlanrig" by Robert Burns on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Sent with some of the Author's Poems.
O could I give thee India's wealth, / As I this trifle send; / Because thy joy in both would be / To share them with a friend.
But golden sands did never grace / The Heliconian stream; / Then take what gold could never buy- / An honest bard's esteem.