The Auld Farmers New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
try't their mettle,
an' gar't them whaizle:
nae whip nor spur, but just a wattle
o' saugh or hazel.
thou was a tie-n',
as e'er in tug or tow was drawn!
aft thee an' i, in aught hours' gaun,
in guid march-weather,
hae turn'd sax rood beside our han',
for days thegither.
thou never braing't, an' fetch't, an' fliskit;
but thy auld tail thou wad hae whiskit,
an' spread abreed thy weel-fill'd brisket,
wi' pith an' power;
till sprittie knowes wad rair't an' riski
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