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

456 . Epitaph on Captain Lascelles

WHEN Lascelles thought fit from this world to depart,

Some friends warmly thought of embalming his heart;

A bystander whispers—“Pray don’t make so much o’t,

The subject is poison, no reptile will touch it.”