Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 422. Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway |
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| WHAT dost thou in that mansion fair? | |
| Flit, Galloway, and find | |
| Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, | |
| The picture of thy mind. | |
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No Stewart art thou, Galloway, | 5 |
| The Stewarts ’ll were brave; | |
| Besides, the Stewarts were but fools, | |
| Not one of them a knave. | |
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| Bright ran thy line, O Galloway, | |
| Thro’ many a far-fam’d sire! | 10 |
| So ran the far-famed Roman way, | |
| And ended in a mire. | |
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Spare me thy vengeance, Galloway! | |
| In quiet let me live: | |
| I ask no kindness at thy hand, | 15 |
| For thou hast none to give. | |
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