My harns are seaweed—when the tide is in

They swall like blethers and in comfort float,

But when the tide is oot they lie like gealed

And runkled auld bluid-vessels in a knot!

The munelicht ebbs and flows and wi’t my thocht,

Noo’ movin’ mellow and noo lourd and rough.

I ken what I am like in Life and Daith,

But Life and Daith for nae man are enough....

And O! to think that there are members o’

St Andrew’s Societies sleepin’ soon’,