As lang's we're hale and fier: lusty

‘Mair spier na, nor fear na,’ More ask not

Auld age ne'er mind a feg; fig

The last o't, the warst o't,

Is only but to beg.

To lie in kilns and barns at e'en,

When banes are craz'd, and bluid is thin, bones

Is, doubtless, great distress!

Yet then content could mak us blest;

Ev'n then, sometimes, we'd snatch a taste