TO F. G. SCOTT.
Reading edition
Can ratt-rime and ragments o’ quenry And recoll o’ Gillha’ requite Your faburdoun, figuration, and gemmell, And prick-sangs’ delight? Tho’ you’ve cappilowed me in the reapin’ —And yours was a bursten kirn tae!— Yet you share your advantage wi’ me In the end o’ the day. And my flytin’ and sclatrie sall be Wi’ your fantice and mocage entwined As the bauch Earth is wi’ the lift Or fate wi’ mankind!