Pegasus at Wanlockhead, with a letter from Thomas Sloan to John Taylor
To Mr John Taylor
With Pegasus upon a day
Apollo, weary flying,
(Thro' frosty hills the journey lay)
On foot the way was plying. ----
Poor, slip-shod, giddy Pegasus
Was but a sorry walker,
To Vulcan then Apollo gaes
To get a frosty calker. ----
Obliging Vulcan fell to wark,
Threw by his coat & bonnet,
And did Sol's business in ^a crack,
Sol pay'd him with a sonnet.
Ye
With Pegasus upon a day
Apollo, weary flying,
(Thro' frosty hills the journey lay)
On foot the way was plying. ----
Poor, slip-shod, giddy Pegasus
Was but a sorry walker,
To Vulcan then Apollo gaes
To get a frosty calker. ----
Obliging Vulcan fell to wark,
Threw by his coat & bonnet,
And did Sol's business in ^a crack,
Sol pay'd him with a sonnet.
Ye
Ye Vulcan's Sons of Wanlockhead,
Pity my sad disaster!
My Pegasus is poorly shod,
I'll pay you like my Master.
Robt. Burns
Ramage's
3, o'clock
Pity my sad disaster!
My Pegasus is poorly shod,
I'll pay you like my Master.
Robt. Burns
Ramage's
3, o'clock
Burns's lent Compts to Mr Taylor
it would be doing him & the Ayrshire
Bard a particular favor, if Mr T. would
be kind enough to oblige them instanter??
w. his agreeable Compy.
The road has been so slippery that the
Riders & the Brutes were equally in
danger of getting some of their bones broke,
--for the Poet has life & Limbs are some
consequence to the world, but for poor folk
it matters very little what may become of
him, excepting a few, amongst whom J
reckons his good friend Mr. Taylor. The whole of
the business to [?] the favour of getting the Horses
shoes ? spined. ----
it would be doing him & the Ayrshire
Bard a particular favor, if Mr T. would
be kind enough to oblige them instanter??
w. his agreeable Compy.
The road has been so slippery that the
Riders & the Brutes were equally in
danger of getting some of their bones broke,
--for the Poet has life & Limbs are some
consequence to the world, but for poor folk
it matters very little what may become of
him, excepting a few, amongst whom J
reckons his good friend Mr. Taylor. The whole of
the business to [?] the favour of getting the Horses
shoes ? spined. ----

Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/192
- Alt. number
- 3.6196
- Date
- 1788
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs
(
a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Pegasus at Wanlockhead, with a letter from Thomas Sloan to John Taylor