字体:大 中 小
护眼
关灯
上一页
目录
下一页
The Brigs Of Ayr (第3/6页)
ig appear'd of a pictish race, the very wrinkles gothi his face; he seem'd as he wi' time had warstl'd lang, yet, teughly doure, he bade an unco bang. new brig was buskit in a braw new coat, that he, at lon'on, frae ane adams got; in 's hand five taper staves as smooth 's a bead, wi' virls and whirlygigums at the head. the goth was stalking round with anxious search, spying the time-worn flaws in every arch; it c'd his new-e neibor took his e'e, and e'en a vexed and angry heart had he! wi' thieveless so see his modish mien, he, dower, gies him this guid-e'en:— auld brig “i doubt na, frien', ye'll think ye're nae sheepshank, ance ye were streekit owre frae bank to bank! but gin ye be a brig as auld as me— tho' faith, that date, i doubt, ye'll never see— there'll be, if that day e, i'll wad a boddle, some fewer whigmaleeries in your noddle.” new brig “auld vandal! ye but show your little mense, just much about it wi' your sty sense: will your poor, narrow foot-path of a street, where twa wheel-barrows tremble when they meet, your ruin'd, formless bulk o' stane and lime, pare wi' bonie brigs o' modern time? there's men of taste wou'd tak the ducat stream, tho' they should cast the very sark and swim, e'er they would grate their feelings wi' the view o' si ugly, gothic hulk as you.” auld brig “ceited gowk! puff'd up wi' windy pride! this mony a year i've stood the flood an' tide; and tho' wi' crazy eild i'm sair forfairn, i'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless ! as yet ye little ken about the matter, but twa—three winters will inform ye better. when heavy, dark, tinued, a'-day rains, wi' deepening deluges o'erflow the plains; when from the hills where springs the brawl