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The Vision (第1/5页)
the vision
duan first
the sun had clos'd the winter day,
the curless quat their roarin play,
and hunger'd maukin taen her way,
to kail-yards green,
while faithless snaws ilk step betray
whare she has been.
the thresher's weary flingin-tree,
the lee-lang day had tired me;
and when the day had clos'd his e'e,
far i' the west,
ben i' the spence, right pensivelie,
i gaed to rest.
there, lanely by the ingle-cheek,
i sat and ey'd the spewing reek,
that fill'd, wi' hoast-provoking smeek,
the auld clay biggin;
an' heard the restless rattons squeak
about the riggin.
all in this mottie, misty clime,
i backward mus'd on wasted time,
how i had spent my youthfu' prime,
an' done nae thing,
but stringing blethers up in rhyme,
for fools to sing.
had i to guid advice but harkit,
i might, by this, hae led a market,
or strutted in a bank and clarkit
my cash-account;
while here, half-mad, half-fed, half-sarkit.
is a' th' amount.
i started, mutt'ring, “blockhead! coof!”
and heav'd on high my waukit loof,
to swear by a' yon starry roof,
or some rash aith,
that i henceforth wad be rhyme-proof
till my last breath—
when click! the string the snick did draw;
an' jee! the door gaed to the wa';
an' by my ingle-lowe i saw,
now bleezin bright,
a tight, outlandish hizzie, braw,
come full in sight.
ye need na doubt, i held my whisht;
the infant aith, half-form'd, was crusht
i glowr'd as eerie's i'd been dusht
in some wild glen;
when sweet, like honest worth, she blusht,
an' stepped ben.
green, slender, leaf-clad holly-boughs
were twisted, gracefu', round her brows;
i took her for some scottish muse,
by that same token;
and come to stop those reckless vows,
would soon been broken.
a “hair-brain'd, sentimental trace”
was strongly marked in
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