Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO JOHN TAYLOR, by ROBERT BURNS


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First Line: With pegasus upon a day
Last Line: I'll pay you like my master.
Subject(s): Poverty; Labor & Laborers


With Pegasus upon a day,
Apollo, weary flying,
Through frosty hills the journey lay,
On foot the way was plying.

Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus
Was but a sorry walker;
To Vulcan then Apollo goes,
To get a frosty caulker.

Obliging Vulcan fell to work,
Threw by his coat and bonnet,
And did Sol's business in a crack;
Sol paid him with a sonnet.

Ye Vulcan's sons of Wanlockhead,
Pity my sad disaster;
My Pegasus is poorly shod,
I'll pay you like my master.





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