And you see in the licht o’t that a’
You ha’e o’r’s the cleiks....
What forest worn to the backhauf’s this,
What Eden brocht doon to a beanswaup?
—A’ the ferlies o’ natur’ spring frae the earth,
And into’t again maun drap.
Animals, vegetables, what are they a’
But as thochts that a man has ha’en?
And Earth sall be like a toom skull syne.
—Whaur’ll its thochts be then?...