The gods sure in some canny hour To bonny Nith hae taen a tour, Whare bonny blinks the caller flow'r Beside the stream, And sportive there hae shawn their pow'r In fairy dream. Had Kirkhill here but kent the gate, The beauties on Dumfries that wait, He'd never turn'd his canker'd pate Of satire keen, Whan ilka thing's sae trig and feat, To cheer the een. I ken the stirrah loo'd fu weel Amang the drinking louns to reel, An claret wine or porter sweel, Whilk he could get, After a shank o' beer he'd peel, His craig to wet. @3Marshall's@1 an' @3Bushby's@1 then had fund Some kitchen gude, to lay the grund, And @3Cheshire mites@1 had helped to hund And fley awa The heart-scad an' a scud o' wind Frae stamack raw. Had Horace liv'd, that pleasant sinner, That loo'd gude wine to synd his dinner, His muse tho' dowf, the deil be in her, She'd lous'd her tongue, The drink could round Parnassus rin her In blythest sang. Nae mair he'd sung to auld Maecenas, The blinking een o' bonny Venus, His leave o' them he'd taen at anis For claret here, Which Jove and a' his gods still rain us Frae year to year. O Jove, man, gie's some orra pence, Mair siller, an' a wie mair sense, I'd bigg to you a rural spence, An' bide a' simmer, An' cald frae saul and body fence With frequent brimmer. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE GRECIAN KINDNESS: A SONG by JOHN WILMOT HELIADES: ZEUS, BRAZEN THUNDER-HURLER by AESCHYLUS ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 13. TO AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH by MARK AKENSIDE PRAIRIE MUSIC by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER SONG by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON |