Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
179 . To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair
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Frae Pindus or Parnassus;
Auld Reekie dings them a’ to sticks,
For rhyme-inspiring lasses.
Made Homer deep their debtor; But, gien the body half an e’e, Nine Ferriers wad done better! Down George’s Street I stoited; A creeping cauld prosaic fog My very sense doited. My saul lay in the mire; Ye turned a neuk—I saw your e’e— She took the wing like fire! In gratitude I send you, And pray, in rhyme as weel as prose, A’ gude things may attend you!