Epigram on Rough Woods

Robert Burns, 1759 – 1796

I’m now arrived—thanks to the gods!—

Thro’ pathways rough and muddy,

A certain sign that makin roads

Is no this people’s study:

Altho’ Im not wi’ Scripture cram’d,

I’m sure the Bible says

That heedless sinners shall be damn’d,

Unless they mend their ways.