To John Syme [A]
No more of your guests, be they titled or not, And cook'ry the first in the nation: Who is proof to thy personal converse and wit, Is proof to all other temptation.
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About this work
This is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1795 and is read here by John Ramage.
Themes for this poem
Selected for 17 December
John Syme toured Galloway with Burns in the summer of 1794 and worked ceaselessly after the poet's death to assist his family and promote his work. A laird's son, lawyer and former soldier, Syme left us a very vivid pen portrait of his friend. Of the poet's eyes and lips he wrote, 'The first, remarkable for fire, and the second for flexability...'. Today's poem bears the date December 17th, 1795.
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