The Selkirk Grace: The Selkirk Grace

The Selkirk Grace

[On a visit to St. Mary's Isle, Burns was requested by the noble owner
to say grace to dinner; he obeyed in these lines, now known in
Galloway by the name of "The Selkirk Grace."]

    Some hae meat and canna eat,
      And some wad eat that want it;
    But we hae meat and we can eat,
      And sae the Lord be thanket.

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