EPIGRAM.
The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull;
Each tugs it a different way,—
And the greatest of all is John Bull!
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 494.]
MY BOY HOBBIE O.[113]
New Song to the tune of
"Whare hae ye been a' day,
My boy Tammy O.!
Courting o' a young thing
Just come frae her Mammie O."
1.
How came you in Hob's pound to cool,
My boy Hobbie O?
Because I bade the people pull
The House into the Lobby O.
2.