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Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns: Part XXV

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Burns, Robert

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Part XXV

Impromptu On Carron Iron Works

We cam na here to view your warks, In hopes to be mair wise, But only, lest we gang to hell, It may be nae surprise: But when we tirl'd at your door Your porter dought na hear us; Sae may, shou'd we to Hell's yetts come, Your billy Satan sair us!

To Miss Ferrier

Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.

Nae heathen name shall I prefix, Frae Pindus or Parnassus; Auld Reekie dings them a' to sticks, For rhyme-inspiring lasses.

Jove's tunefu' dochters three times three Made Homer deep their debtor; But, gien the body half an e'e, Nine ...

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