e upon the haly table,
a murderer's banes, in gibbet-airns;
tan-ng, wee, unchristened bairns;
a thief, new-cutted frae a rape,
wi' his st gasp his gabudid gape;
five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted:
five scimitars, wi' murder crusted;
a garter which a babe had strangled:
a knife, a father's throat had mangled.
whom his ain son of life bereft,
the grey-hairs yet stack to the heft;
wi' mair of horrible and awfu',
which even to name wad be unwfu'.
as tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious,
the mirth and fun grew
Tam O Shanter(10/16)