Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
39;s aft mair than a' the ve),
your better art o' hidin.
think, when your castigated pulse
gies now and then a !
what ragings must his veins vulse,
that still eternal gallop!
wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail,
right on ye scud your sea-way;
but ieeth o' baith to sail,
it maks a unco lee-way.
see social life and glee sit down,
all joyous and unthinking,
till, quite transmugrified, theyrown
debauchery and drinking:
o would they stay to calcute
th' eternal sequences;
or your more dreaded hell to state,
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