And here’s
a very famous one J
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Address
To A Haggis
By Robert
Burns
Fair fa'
your honest, sonsie face,
Great
chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Aboon
them a' yet tak your place,
Painch,
tripe, or thairm:
Weel are
ye wordy o'a grace
As lang's
my arm.
The
groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your
hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin
was help to mend a mill
In time
o'need,
While
thro' your pores the dews distil
Like
amber bead.
His knife
see rustic Labour dight,
An' cut
you up wi' ready sleight,
Trenching
your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony
ditch;
And then,
O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin',
rich!
Then,
horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:
Deil tak
the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a'
their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent
like drums;
Then auld
Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit!
hums.
Is there
that owre his French ragout
Or olio
that wad staw a sow,
Or
fricassee wad make her spew
Wi'
perfect sconner,
Looks
down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a
dinner?
Poor
devil! see him owre his trash,
As
feckles as wither'd rash,
His
spindle shank, a guid whip-lash;
His nieve
a nit;
Thro'
blody flood or field to dash,
O how
unfit!
But mark
the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The
trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in
his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak
it whissle;
An' legs
an' arms, an' hands will sned,
Like taps
o' trissle.
Ye
Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish
them out their bill o' fare,
Auld
Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That
jaups in luggies;
But, if
ye wish her gratefu' prayer
Gie her a
haggis!
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