ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF LORD G. What dost thou in that mansion fair? Flit G and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, The picture of thy mind! ON THE SAME. No Stewart art thou G The Stewarts all were brave; ON THE SAME. Bright ran thy line O, G—— Thro' many a far-fam'd sire! TO THE SAME ON THE AUTHOR BEING THREATENED WITH HIS RESENTMENT. Spare me thy vengeance, G— In quiet let me live : I ask no kindness at thy hand, THE THE DEAN OF FACULTY. A NEW BALLAD. Tune-The Dragon of Wantley. Dire was the hate at old Harlaw, Than 'twixt Hal and Bob for the famous job- This Hal for genius, wit, and lore, And wan his heart's desire; Which shews that heaven can boil the pot, Squire Squire Hal besides had in this case So their worships of the Faculty, As once on Pisgah purg'd was the sight So may be, on this Pisgah height, Bob's purblind, mental vision: ! EXTEMPORE EXTEMPORE IN THE COURT OF SESSION. Tune,-Gillicrankie. LORD A-TE. He clench'd his pamphlets in his fist, He quoted and he hinted, He fand it was awa, man; But what his common sense came short, He eked out wi' law, man. MR. ER-NE. Collected Harry stood awee, Then open'd out his arm, man; His lordship sat wi' ruefu' e'e, And ey'd the gathering storm, man: Like wind-driv'n hail it did assail, Or torrents owre a lin, man; The Bench sae wise lift up their eyes, Half-wauken'd wi' the din, man. *Tint-lost. VERSES VERSES TO J. RANKEN, (The person to whom his Poem on shooting the partridge is addressed, while Ranken occupied the farm of Adamhill, in Ayrshire.) AE day, as Death, that grusome carl, By G-d I'll not be seen behint them, "Nor 'mang the sp'ritual core present them, "Without, at least ae honest man, "To grace this d-d infernal clan." By *The word Wintle, denotes sudden and involuntary motion. In the ludicrous sense in which it is here applied, it may be admirably translated by the vulgar London expression of Dancing upon nothing. F F |