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Halloween (第1/6页)
halloween 注释标题 is thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings are abroad on their baneful midnight errands; particularly those aerial people, the fairies, are said on that night to hold a grand anniversary,.—r.b. the following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of scotland. the passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.—r.b. yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, the simple pleasure of the lowly train; to me more dear, congenial to my heart, one native charm, than all the gloss of art.—goldsmith. upon that night, when fairies light on cassilis downans dance, or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, on sprightly coursers prance; or for colean the rout is ta'en, beneath the moon's pale beams; there, up the cove, to stray an' rove, amang the rocks and streams to sport that night; amang the bonie winding banks, where doon rins, wimplin, clear; where bruce ance rul'd the martial ranks, an' shook his carrick spear; some merry, friendly, countra-folks together did convene, to burn their nits, an' pou their stocks, an' haud their halloween fu' blythe that night. the lasses feat, an' cleanly neat, mair braw than when they're fine; their faces blythe, fu' sweetly kythe, hearts leal, an' warm, an' kin': the lads sae trig, wi' wooer-babs weel-knotted on their garten; so