to miss ferrier
enclosing the elegy on sir j. h. bir.
nae heathen name shall i prefix,
frae pindus or parnassus;
auld reekie dings them a' to sticks,
for rhyme-inspiring sses.
jove's tunefu' dochters three times three
made homer deep their debtor;
but, gien the body half an e'e,
nine ferriers wad doer!
st day my mind was in a bog,
down gee's street i stoited;
a creeping cauld prosaic fog
my very sense doited.
do what i dought to set her free,
my saul y in the mire;
ye turned a neuk—i saw your e'e—
she
To Miss Ferrier(1/2)