elegy on willie nicol's mare

    peg nicholson was a good bay mare,

    as ever trod on airn;

    but now she's floating down the nith,

    and past the mouth o' cairn.

    peg nicholson was a good bay mare,

    an' rode thro' thick and thin;

    but now she's floating down the nith,

    and wanting even the skin.

    peg nicholson was a good bay mare,

    and ance she bore a priest;

    but now she's floating down the nith,

    for solway fish a feast.

    peg nicholson was a good bay mare,

    an' the priest he rode her sair;

    and much oppress'd and bruis'd she was,

    as priest-rid cattle are,—&c. &c.