An’ only eats an’ drinks what suits
The Bible says the age o’ man
Threescore and ten, perchance, may be;
She’s ninety-four. Let them who can,
Explain the incongruity.
She should hae lived afore the flood;
She’s come o’ patriarchal blood;
She’s some auld Pagan mummified,
Alive for her annuity.