And Man’s mind in its final shape,

Or lang’ll seem a monkey’s spook,

And, strewth, to me the vera thocht

O’ Thocht already’s fell like that!

Yet still the cracklin’ thorns persist

In fitba’ match and peepy show,

To antic hay a dog-fecht’s mair

Than Jacob v. the Angel,

And through a cylinder o’ wombs,

A star reflected in a dub,