Epigram on Rough Roads
I’m now arrived—thanks to the gods!— Thro’ pathways rough and muddy, A certain sign that makin roads Is no this people’s study: Altho’ Im not wi’ Scripture cram’d, I’m sure the Bible says That heedless sinners shall be damn’d, Unless they mend their ways.8910
Notes
8 A compliment to the Montgomeries of Coilsfield, on the Feal or Faile, a tributary of the Ayr.
9 Mrs. Stewart of Stair, an early patroness of the poet.
10 The house of Professor Dugald Stewart.