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.