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Pegasus at Wanlockhead

by Robert Burns, 1789

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.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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