TO VOLUME SECOND, Epigram, written Extempore on a Gentleman who was rather ill-favoured, but had a The vanity of Human Wishes; an Elegy on SCOTS POEMS. AN ECLOGUE. TWAS e'ening whan the speckled gowdspink sang, When new-fa'en dew in blobs o' chrystal hang; Then Will and Sandie thought they'd wrought eneugh, And loos'd their sair toil'd owsen frae the pleugh: Before they ca'd their cattle to the town, The lads to draw their breath e'en sat them down: To the stiff sturdy aik they lean'd their backs, While honest Sandie thus began the cracks. |