字体:大 中 小
护眼
关灯
上一页
目录
下一页
The Holy Fair (第3/5页)
ppy is that man, an' blest! nae wonder that it pride him! whase ain dear lass, that he likes best, comes clinkin down beside him! wi' arms repos'd on the chair back, he sweetly does compose him; which, by degrees, slips round her neck, an's loof upon her bosom, unkend that day. now a' the congregation o'er is silent expectation; for moodie speels the holy door, wi' tidings o' damnation: should hornie, as in ancient days, 'mang sons o' god present him, the vera sight o' moodie's face, to 's ain het hame had sent him wi' fright that day. hear how he clears the point o' faith wi' rattlin and wi' thumpin! now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, he's stampin, an' he's jumpin! his lengthen'd chin, his turned-up snout, his eldritch squeel an' gestures, o how they fire the heart devout, like cantharidian plaisters on sic a day! but hark! the tent has chang'd its voice, there's peace an' rest nae langer; for a' the real judges rise, they canna sit for anger, smith opens out his cauld harangues, on practice and on morals; an' aff the godly pour in thrangs, to gie the jars an' barrels a lift that day. what signifies his barren shine, of moral powers an' reason? his english style, an' gesture fine are a' clean out o' season. like socrates or antonine, or some auld pagan heathen, the moral man he does define, but ne'er a word o' faith in that's right that day. in guid time comes an antidote against sic poison'd nostrum; for peebles, frae the water-fit, ascends the holy rostrum: see, up he's got, the word o' god, an' meek an' mim has view'd it, whil