A Night Out With Burns (2008)
A Night Out With Burns
“From east of Bann it westered in On the Derry air.
My neighbours toved and bummed and blowed, They happed themselves until it thowed, By slaps and stiles they thrawed and tholed And snedded thrissles, And when the rigs were braked and hoed They’d wet their whistles.
Old men and women getting crabbèd Would hark like dogs who’d seen a rabbit, Then straighten, stare and have a stab at Standard habbie: Custom never staled their habit O’ quotin’ Rabbie.
Leg-lifting, heartsome, lightsome ...Burns!
He overflowed the well-wrought urns Like buttermilk from slurping churns, Rich and unruly, Or dancers flying, doing turns At some wild hooley.
For Rabbie’s free and Rabbie’s big, His stanza may be tight and trig But once he sets the sail and rig Away he goes Like Tam-O-Shanter o’er the brig Where no one follows.MoreLess
My neighbours toved and bummed and blowed, They happed themselves until it thowed, By slaps and stiles they thrawed and tholed And snedded thrissles, And when the rigs were braked and hoed They’d wet their whistles.
Old men and women getting crabbèd Would hark like dogs who’d seen a rabbit, Then straighten, stare and have a stab at Standard habbie: Custom never staled their habit O’ quotin’ Rabbie.
Leg-lifting, heartsome, lightsome ...Burns!
He overflowed the well-wrought urns Like buttermilk from slurping churns, Rich and unruly, Or dancers flying, doing turns At some wild hooley.
For Rabbie’s free and Rabbie’s big, His stanza may be tight and trig But once he sets the sail and rig Away he goes Like Tam-O-Shanter o’er the brig Where no one follows.MoreLess
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