| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. Same Subject Continued | | By John Watson Dalby |
| | | THEN Scotia came to him, and Auld Lang Syne, | |
| And he poured out the story of his life, | |
| Loves, struggles, studies, hope, despair, and strife; | |
| Much thanks, some murmurs, but no childish whine; | |
| And ever and anon the well-loved line | 5 |
| That fixed a principle or stamped a truth, | |
| And crowned in manhood the best dreams of youth,— | |
| Ne’er seemed the Bard of Ayr so all divine. | |
| That wayside Inn shall be remembered yet, | |
| And all our gossip o’er that humble glass. | 10 |
| By chance and in a chimney nook we met, | |
| And Burns and Nature glorified the place. | | | | |
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