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The Brigs Of Ayr (第4/6页)
ing coil,
or stately lugar's mossy fountains boil;
or where the greenock winds his moorland course.
or haunted garpal draws his feeble source,
aroused by blustering winds an' spotting thowes,
in mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes;
while crashing ice, borne on the rolling spate,
sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate;
and from glenbuck, down to the ratton-key,
auld ayr is just ohen'd, tumbling sea—
then down ye'll hurl, (deil nor ye never rise!)
and dash the gumlie jaups up to the p skies!
a lesson sadly teag, to your cost,
that architecture's is lost!”
new brig
“fine architecture, trowth, i needs must say't o't,
the lord be thankit that we've tint the gate o't!
gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices,
hanging with threat'ning jut, like precipices;
o'er-arg, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves,
supp roofs, fantastic, stony groves;
windows and doors in nameless sculptures drest
with order, symmetry, or taste u;
forms like some bedlam statuary's dream,
the craz'd creations of misguided whim;
forms might be worshipp'd on the bended knee,
and still the sed dread and be free;
their likeness is not found oh, in air, or sea!
mansions that would disgrace the building taste
of any masoile, bird or beast:
fit only for a doited monkish race,
or frosty maids forsworn the dear embrace,
or cuifs of later times, wha held the notion,
that sullen gloom was sterling, true devotion:
fahat uid brugh denies prote,
and soon may they expire, u wi' resurre!”
auld brig
“o ye, my dear-remember'd, a yealings,
were ye but here to share my wounded feelings!
ye worthy proveses, an' mony a bailie,
wha ihs hteousness did toil aye;
ye dainty deas, and ye douce veners,
to whom our
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