New Brig

‘Auld Vandal! ye but show your little mense, Just much about it wi’ your scanty 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, Compare wi’ bonnie brigs o’ modern time? There’s men o’ taste wou’d tak the Ducat stream, Tho’ they should cast the very sark and swim, Ere they would grate their feelings wi’ the view O’ sic an ugly Gothic hulk as you.’