fast and furious;
the piper loud and louder blew,
the dancers quid quicker flew,
the reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit,
till ilka carlin swat a,
and coost her duddies to the wark,
and linkit at it in her sark!
now tam, o tam! had they been queans,
a' plump and strapping ieens!
their sarks, instead o' creeshie finen,
been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen!—
thir breeks o' mine, my only pair,
that ance were plush o' guid blue hair,
i wad hae gien them off my hurdies,
for ae blink o' the bonie burdies!
but
Tam O Shanter(11/16)