dle.”
new brig
“auld vandal! ye but show your little mense,
just much about it wi' your sty sense:
will your poor, narrow foot-path of a street,
where twa wheel-barrows tremble when they meet,
your ruin'd, formless bulk o' stane and lime,
pare wi' bonie brigs o' modern time?
there's men of taste wou'd tak the ducat stream,
tho' they should cast the very sark and swim,
e'er they would grate their feelings wi' the view
o' si ugly, gothic hulk as you.”
auld brig
“ceited gowk! puff'd up wi' windy pride!
The Brigs Of Ayr(9/20)