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title: "Pegasus at Wanlockhead"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1789"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/pegasus-at-wanlockhead/"
---

# Pegasus at Wanlockhead

## Poem
With Pegasus upon a day,  
Apollo, weary flying,  
Through frosty hills the journey lay,  
On foot the way was plying.

Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus  
Was but a sorry walker;  
To Vulcan then Apollo goes,  
To get a frosty caulker.

Obliging Vulcan fell to work,  
Threw by his coat and bonnet,  
And did Sol’s business in a crack;  
Sol paid him with a sonnet.

Ye Vulcan’s sons of Wanlockhead,  
Pity my sad disaster;  
My Pegasus is poorly shod,  
I’ll pay you like my master.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/pegasus-at-wanlockhead/