WITH Pegasus upon a day,
Apollo, weary flying,
Through frosty hills the journey lay,
On foot the way was plying.
Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus
Was but a sorry walker;
To Vulcan then Apollo goes,
To get a frosty caulker.
Obliging Vulcan fell to work,
Threw by his coat and bonnet,
And did Sol's business in a crack;
Sol paid him with a sonnet.
Ye Vulcan's sons of Wanlockhead,
Pity my sad disaster;
My Pegasus is poorly shod,
I'll pay you like my master.
More verses by Robert Burns
- Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
- Song—i Hae Been At Crookieden
- Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
- To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh
- Epistle To The Rev. John M'Math