Living

Pegasus At Wanlockhead

by Robert Burns 1759–1796

From Poems and Songs, 1789

Living

With Pegasus upon a day,
Apollo, weary flying,
Through frosty hills the journey lay,
On foot the way was plying.

Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus
Was but a sorry walker;
To Vulcan then Apollo goes,
To get a frosty caulker.

Obliging Vulcan fell to work,
Threw by his coat and bonnet,
And did Sol’s business in a crack;
Sol paid him with a sonnet.

Ye Vulcan’s sons of Wanlockhead,
Pity my sad disaster;
My Pegasus is poorly shod,
I’ll pay you like my master.

MLA

Burns, Robert. “Pegasus At Wanlockhead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/245/.

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Burns, Robert. “Pegasus At Wanlockhead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/245/.

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