The Selkirk Grace

This is usually attributed to Robert Burns, although a variant of it was known in the 17th Century as the Galloway Grace or the Covenanters’ Grace. It is traditionally recited before eating the haggis at a Burns’ Night Supper on 25th January each year.

Scots:

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.

Gaelic:

Tha biadh aig cuid, ‘s gun aca càil;
acras aig cuid, ‘s gun aca biadh;
ach againne tha biadh is slàint’;
moladh mar sin a bhith don Triath.

An English translation exists as:

Some have food and cannot eat,
And some would eat but have no food,
But we have food and we can eat,
And so the Lord be thanked.