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Address To The Deil (第2/3页)
ight, ayont the lough; ye, like a rash-buss, stood in sight, wi' wavin' sough. the cudgel in my nieve did shake, each brist'ld hair stood like a stake, when wi' an eldritch, stoor “quaick, quaick,” amang the springs, awa ye squatter'd like a drake, on whistlin' wings. let warlocks grim, an' wither'd hags, tell how wi' you, on ragweed nags, they skim the muirs an' dizzy crags, wi' wicked speed; and in kirk-yards renew their leagues, owre howkit dead. thence countra wives, wi' toil and pain, may plunge an' plunge the kirn in vain; for oh! the yellow treasure's ta'en by witchin' skill; an' dawtit, twal-pint hawkie's gane as yell's the bill. thence mystic knots mak great abuse on young guidmen, fond, keen an' crouse, when the best wark-lume i' the house, by cantrip wit, is instant made no worth a louse, just at the bit. when thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, an' float the jinglin' icy boord, then water-kelpies haunt the foord, by your direction, and 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd to their destruction. and aft your moss-traversin spunkies decoy the wight that late an' drunk is: the bleezin, curst, mischievous monkies delude his eyes, till in some miry slough he sunk is, ne'er mair to rise. when masons' mystic word an' grip in storms an' tempests raise you up, some cock or cat your rage maun stop, or, stra