LETTERS FROM EDINBURGH
‘they talk very grammatically’, Edward Topham
some deluge loafing letter
rose mouthing that capital
to rank or drawn facsimile
through dark stays exposed
to sale and the herb women
shunning the heavy hand of
drysalters how said lichen
did each storey of land as
a house is in the sensible
dressed macaroni home spun
as all stone of brown cast
runs down the great swifts
in painted pattern figures
of commodities sold within
so fond of glaring colours
but a plaintive simplicity
in the general of the song
and many sable processions
foxed trappings and blazes
how empty founds in formal
panegyric shall beg stupid
to leave the letter in yrs
