Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
420 . Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.
No envious cloud o’ercast his evening ray;
No wrinkle, furrow’d by the hand of care,
Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair!
O may no son the father’s honour stain,
Nor ever daughter give the mother pain!