NAE heathen name shall I prefix, <br />Frae Pindus or Parnassus; <br />Auld Reekie dings them a' to sticks, <br />For rhyme-inspiring lasses. <br /> <br /> <br />Jove's tunefu' dochters three times three <br />Made Homer deep their debtor; <br />But, gien the body half an e'e, <br />Nine Ferriers wad done better! <br /> <br /> <br />Last day my mind was in a bog, <br />Down George's Street I stoited; <br />A creeping cauld prosaic fog <br />My very sense doited. <br /> <br /> <br />Do what I dought to set her free, <br />My saul lay in the mire; <br />Ye turned a neuk—I saw your e'e— <br />She took the wing like fire! <br /> <br /> <br />The mournfu' sang I here enclose, <br />In gratitude I send you, <br />And pray, in rhyme as weel as prose, <br />A' gude things may attend you!<br /><br />Robert Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-miss-ferrier-enclosing-elegy-on-sir-j-h-blair/
