The Selkirk Grace

Now traditionally spoken at the beinging of any Burns Supper, the Selkirk Grace is an adaptation of the much older Galloway Grace, which Burns first used at the table of the Earl of Selkirk in 1793 (before, perhaps ironically, a meal of cock-a-leekie, haggis, and neeps and tatties).

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.