Sir Henry Raeburn: Portrait of Rev Robert Walker
Skating on Duddingston Loch

The skating minister is well balanced

And knows it. Something distinctly smug

Keeps those arms in place. Wouldn't it be good

If the god of thaws pulled that icy rug

From under him, to remind his next sermon

What it is that goeth before a fall.

He shivers before the fire

Hunched in his wife's mocking shawl -

Not the thing at all!