“We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, / For auld lang syne, / And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp! / And surely I'll be mine!”

Burns wrote the song for a woman he was about to leave, and it closes on a shared cup rather than a kiss, which gives it the air of a love letter written after the romance has survived the departure. The Scots phrasing is part of its warmth.