It’s late,
but I didn’t want to skip a day after having skipped no days in so many
moons J
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Address
To The Toothache
By Robert
Burns
My curse
upon your venom'd stang,
That
shoots my tortur'd gums alang,
An' thro'
my lug gies mony a twang,
Wi'
gnawing vengeance,
Tearing
my nerves wi' bitter pang,
Like
racking engines!
When
fevers burn, or argues freezes,
Rheumatics
gnaw, or colics squeezes,
Our
neibor's sympathy can ease us,
Wi'
pitying moan;
But
thee-thou hell o' a' diseases-
Aye mocks
our groan.
Adown my
beard the slavers trickle
I throw
the wee stools o'er the mickle,
While
round the fire the giglets keckle,
To see me
loup,
While,
raving mad, I wish a heckle
Were in
their doup!
In a' the
numerous human dools,
Ill
hairsts, daft bargains, cutty stools,
Or worthy
frien's rak'd i' the mools, -
Sad sight
to see!
The
tricks o' knaves, or fash o'fools,
Thou
bear'st the gree!
Where'er
that place be priests ca' hell,
Where a'
the tones o' misery yell,
An'
ranked plagues their numbers tell,
In
dreadfu' raw,
Thou,
Toothache, surely bear'st the bell,
Amang
them a'!
O thou
grim, mischief-making chiel,
That gars
the notes o' discord squeel,
Till daft
mankind aft dance a reel
In gore,
a shoe-thick,
Gie a'
the faes o' Scotland's weal
A
townmond's toothache!
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