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The Ordination (第1/3页)
the ordination for sense they little owe to frugal heav'n— to please the mob, they hide the little giv'n. kilmarnock wabsters, fidge an' claw, an' pour your creeshie nations; an' ye wha leather rax an' draw, of a' denominations; swith to the ligh kirk, ane an' a' an' there tak up your stations; then aff to begbie's in a raw, an' pour divine libations for joy this day. curst common-sense, that imp o' hell, cam in wi' maggie lauder; but oliphant aft made her yell, an' russell sair misca'd her: this day mackinlay taks the flail, an' he's the boy will blaud her! he'll clap a shangan on her tail, an' set the bairns to daud her wi' dirt this day. mak haste an' turn king david owre, and lilt wi' holy clangor; o' double verse come gie us four, an' skirl up the bangor: this day the kirk kicks up a stoure; nae mair the knaves shall wrang her, for heresy is in her pow'r, and gloriously she'll whang her wi' pith this day. come, let a proper text be read, an' touch it aff wi' vigour, how graceless ham leugh at his dad, which made canaan a nigger; or phineas drove the murdering blade, wi' whore-abhorring rigour; or zipporah, the scauldin jad, was like a bluidy tiger i' th' inn that day. there, try his mettle on the creed, an' bind him down wi' caution, that stipend is a carnal weed he taks by for the fas