Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
epistle to el de peyster
my honor'd el, deep i feel
your i in the poet's weal;
ah! now sma' heart hae i to speel
the steep parnassus,
surrouhus by bolus pill,
and potion gsses.
o what a ty world were it,
would pain and care and siess spare it;
and fortune favour worth a
as they deserve;
and aye rowth o' roast-beef and cret,
syne, wha wad starve?
dame life, tho' fi out may trick her,
and in paste gems and frippery deck her;
oh! flickering, feeble, and unsicker
i've fouill,
aye wavering like the willow-w
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