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I amna' fou' sae muckle as tired-deid dune. / It's gey and hard wark' coupin' gless for gless / Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like, / And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.
The elbuck fankles in the coorse o' time, / The sheckle's no' sae souple, and the thrapple / Grows deef and dour: nae langer up and doun / Gleg as a squirrel speils the Adam's apple.