The Poetical Works

Where Cessnock pours with gurgling sound,1
And Irwine, marking out the bound,
Enamoured of the scenes around,

Slow runs his race,

A name I doubly honoured found,2

With knightly grace.

Brydone's brave ward, I saw him stand,3
Fame humbly offering her hand;
And near his kinsman's rustic band,4
With one accord,

Lamenting their late blessed land

Must change its lord.

The owner of a pleasant spot,
Near sandy wilds I did him note ;5
A heart too warm, a pulse too hot,
At times o'erran ;

But large in every feature wrote,

Appeared the man.

1 Auchinskieth.

2 Caprington. B. Cunningham of Caprington, Baronet. 8 Colonel Fullarton. - B.

5 Orangefield. — B. Mr. Dalrymple of Orangefield, near Ayr, was an active patron of Burns.

SONG,

IN THE CHARACTER OF A RUINED FARMER.

TUNE-Go from my window, Love, do.

The sun he is sunk in the west,
All creatures retirèd to rest,
While here I sit all sore beset

With sorrow, grief, and wo;