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Election Ballad (第1/4页)
ele ballad at the close of the test for representing the dumfries burghs, 1790. addressed traham, esq. of fintry. fintry, my stay in wordly strife, friend o' my muse, friend o' my life, are ye as idle's i am? e then, wi' uncouth kintra fleg, asus i'll fling my leg, and ye shall see me try him. but where shall i go rin a ride, that i may splatter nane beside? i wad na be uncivil: in manhood's various paths and ways there's aye some doytin' body strays, and i ride like the devil. thus i break aff wi' a' my birr, and down yon dark, deep alley spur, where theologics daunder: alas! curst wi' eternal fogs, and damn'd in everlasting bogs, as sure's the creed i'll blunder! i'll stain a band, or jaup a gown, or rin my reckless, guilty against the haly door: sair do i rue my luckless fate, when, as the muse an' deil wad hae't, i rade that road before. suppose i take a spurt, and mix amang the wilds o' politics— electors aed, where dogs at court (sad sons of bitches!) septennially a madouches, till all the land's ied. all hail! drumlanrig's haughty grace, discarded remnant of a race once godlike—great in story; thy forbears' virtues all trasted, the very name of douglas blasted, thihat ied glory! hate, envy, oft the douglas bore, but thou hast superadded more, and sunk them in pt; follies and
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