VERB + ORP
seemed
ORP + NOUN
year
PREP.
from
ADV.
backward
verb
To complain, grumble, or be discontented.
My heart is ever orpin' on / The bonnie banks o' Tay.
To be in ill health; to be sickly and shrivelled.
Of changling Imp—he spoke, no care could rear, / Which backward seemed to orp, from year to year.