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The Brigs Of Ayr (第4/6页)
ing coil, or stately lugar's mossy fountains boil; or where the greenock winds his moorland course. or haunted garpal draws his feeble source, aroused by blustering winds an' spotting thowes, in mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes; while crashing ice, borne on the rolling spate, sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate; and from glenbuck, down to the ratton-key, auld ayr is just ohen'd, tumbling sea— then down ye'll hurl, (deil nor ye never rise!) and dash the gumlie jaups up to the p skies! a lesson sadly teag, to your cost, that architecture's is lost!” new brig “fine architecture, trowth, i needs must say't o't, the lord be thankit that we've tint the gate o't! gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices, hanging with threat'ning jut, like precipices; o'er-arg, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, supp roofs, fantastic, stony groves; windows and doors in nameless sculptures drest with order, symmetry, or taste u; forms like some bedlam statuary's dream, the craz'd creations of misguided whim; forms might be worshipp'd on the bended knee, and still the sed dread and be free; their likeness is not found oh, in air, or sea! mansions that would disgrace the building taste of any masoile, bird or beast: fit only for a doited monkish race, or frosty maids forsworn the dear embrace, or cuifs of later times, wha held the notion, that sullen gloom was sterling, true devotion: fahat uid brugh denies prote, and soon may they expire, u wi' resurre!” auld brig “o ye, my dear-remember'd, a yealings, were ye but here to share my wounded feelings! ye worthy proveses, an' mony a bailie, wha ihs hteousness did toil aye; ye dainty deas, and ye douce veners, to whom our
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