Posted on 01/25/2010 8:01:38 AM PST by Clive
Ha! whare ye gaun' ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly;
I canna say but ye strunt rarely
Owre gauze and lace,
Tho faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,
Detested, shunn'd by saunt an sinner,
How daur ye set your fit upon her--
Sae fine a lady!
Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner
On some poor body.
Swith! in some beggar's hauffet squattle;
There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle;
Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle;
In shoals and nations;
Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle
Your thick plantations.
Now haud you there! ye're out o' sight,
Below the fatt'rils, snug an tight,
Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right,
Till ye've got on it--
The vera tapmost, tow'rin height
O' Miss's bonnet.
My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,
As plump an grey as onie grozet:
O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
Or fell, red smeddum, I'd gie you sic a hearty dose o't,
Wad dress your droddum!
I wad na been surpris'd to spy
You on an auld wife's flainen toy
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On's wyliecoat;
But Miss's fine Lunardi! fye!
How daur ye do't?
O Jeany, dinna toss your head,
An set your beauties a' abread!
Ye little ken what cursed speed
The blastie's makin!
Thae winks an finger-ends, I dread,
Are notice takin!
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad lea'es us,
An ev'n devotion!
How come this ain’t in Breaking News...?
Robbie Burns were e’re a rake, aye.
Reminds me of something I saw in church a few years ago.
A man sitting in front of me had a new shirt. The garage sale sticker was still taped to the collar. 25 cents.
Was that Rap / HipHop?
Was Burns talking bout our President Zero in the last stanza?
Now whay did you have to go and do that? Now I am going to itch all day.
Just like when they run an article on bed bugs.
"I'm so glad you've opened 'Poetry Corner' for people like me on this forum."
-— and don’t call me Sairly!
Happy birthday Robbie.........
That’s odd, I was just wondering what became of Percy Dove-Tonsils.
That lady has cooties!
Ernie Kovacs was a comic genius.
Fortunately Youtube has a bunch of his old bits. My favorite is when he used a slanted camera to make it look like gravity was working sideways...poured milk etc at a lunch table, etc. Here's one of his Youtube goodies:
Percy Dovetonsils, right?
Yeah.
See reply number 15. Has a link to some classic Ernie Kovacs (Percy originator) on Youtube.
Dear departed spouse used to love Ernie Kovacs. I think we saw him on a television show in the 70s, and I have never forgotten those glasses.
betchya that goofy Nairobi Trio beat is your head as an earworm after you read this....
I was FINE till you posted that. ;-D
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