Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

125 . Lines to Mr. John Kennedy

FAREWELL, dear friend! may guid luck hit you,

And ’mang her favourites admit you:

If e’er Detraction shore to smit you,

May nane believe him,

And ony deil that thinks to get you,

Good Lord, deceive him!