And freely past and gone?

Is thy kind Heart now grown so cold

In that Loving Breast of thine,

That thou can'st never once reflect

On old-long-syne.

And so on, for eighty lines.

Allan Ramsay rewrote it for his Tea-Table Miscellany (1724), and a specimen stanza will show that it was still going down-hill:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

Tho' they return with scars?