Modernized by Hugh Haliburton
Full oft I muse and hes in thocht.
THE PASSAGE of the speeding year,
And Fortune with her changing cheer,
  Are ills on ilka hand contest;
We will not mourn for that, my dear,
  But to be blythe we ’ll count it best.

Fast as this warld fleets awa’
As fast her wheel does Fortune ca’,
  At no...