HAME CONTENT. Unyoke, then, man! and binna sweer To ding a hole in ill-hain'd gear. Gin aince he claws you wi' his paw, But gowden playfair, that may please Some daft chiel reads, and taks advice; The chaise is yokit in a trice; Awa' drives he, like huntit deil, And scarce tholes time to cool his wheel, Till he's-Lord kens how far awa'! At Italy, or Well o' Spa; Or to Montpelier's safter air: For far aff fowls hae feathers fair. There rest him weel:-for eith can we Spare mony glaikit gowks like he. ་་་་་་་་ HAME CONTENT. They'll tell whare Tiber's waters rise; That never wi' their feet hae met The Arno and the Tiber lang Or, are their shores mair sweet and gay While Echo's tongue commends their pains; Wi' simple, saft, bewitchin art, On Leader haughs, and Yarrow braes, Arcadian herds wad tine their lays, HAME CONTENT. To hear the mair melodious sounds, Come, Fancy! come, and let us tread On Tweeda's banks, or Cowdenknowes; Soon will they guess, ye only wear Than, in disguise, ye was before On Tiber's, or on Arno's shore. O Banguor (15)! now the hills and dales Nae mair gie back thy tender tales. HAME CONTENT. The birks on Yarrow now deplore, Who mourn'd her fate, condol'd her woes. POSTHUMOUS PIECES. JOB, CHAP. III. PARAPHRASED. PERISH the fatal day when I was born, Regard it with the favour of his eye; Let blackest darkness and death's awful shade Be dumb to joy, and waste in gloom away; On it may twilight stars be never known; Light let it wish for, Lord! but give it none; |