Robert Burns: How To Know Him

by William Allan Neilson

Where damned devils roar and yell,

Chain'd to their stakes;

Yet I am here a chosen sample,

To show Thy grace is great and ample;

I'm here a pillar o' Thy temple,

Strong as a rock,

A guide, a buckler, an example

To a' Thy flock.

But yet, O Lord! confess I must