Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Nugae canorae medicae : lays / by the Poet laureate of the New Town Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It happened, Sir, last night, that from my home ■ In fancy somehow I was led to roam : I left the dull abodes of sickly men, My books, my lectures, Surgeons' Square, and then (Bright was the sky, delightful was the day) Forth on an open plain I held my way. Up from whose centre, towering to the sky, A two-topped mountain reared itself on high.^ What hill is thisf I said. Can Arthur Scat Have split his head into two halves so neat % That's not Ben Lomond, Ledi, or Duma'it ;^ It seems a stiff 'un, yet I'd like to try it. I bent me to the task—was forced to stop For want of breath, when half way to the top. And with fatigue and weary limb oppressed, Under a rock I laid me down to rest. I lay, I slept—how long I slept's no matter— I had been there till now, but that a clatter Of human voices woke me; not the strong. Big, burly notes of men, but the loud, long, Yet somewhat silvery sounds of female tone; Sufficient cause for wakening up, you '11 own. I started, rubbed my eyes, exclaimed That's queer Why, what on earth can women do up here % Some pic-nic party—I '11 lie still and hear. 1 Mods ibi verticibus petit anluus astra duobus Nomine Parnassus, siiperatque cacumine imbes. Ovidii Metamorph. i. 316. ^ Dumait, tlic highest of the Ochils.—Black^s Scottish Tourid.