to miss ferrier

enclosing the elegy on sir j. h. blair.

nae heathen name shall i prefix,

frae pindus or parnassus;

auld reekie dings them a' to sticks,

for rhyme-inspiring lasses.

jove's tunefu' dochters three times three

made homer deep their debtor;

but, gien the body half an e'e,

nine ferriers wad done better!

last day my mind was in a bog,