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.