Re: Address to the Deil

[edh@ascc01.ascc.att.com (Alfredo el Bufon)]

> > > Could somebody please post it?
> >
> > Certainly!  Here it is:
> >
> > O thou! whatever title suit thee,--
> > Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!
> > Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie,
> >     Clos'd under hatches,
> > Spairges about the brunstane cootie
> >     To scaud poor wretches!
> >
> > Hear me, Auld Hangie, for a wee,
> > An' let poor damned bodies be;
> > I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie,
> >     E'en to a deil,
> > To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me,
> >     An' hear us squeel!
>
> [ 17 stanzas omitted]
>
> > An' now, Auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin,
> > A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin,
> > Some luckless hour will send him linkin,
> >     To your black pit;
> > But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkin,
> >     An' cheat you yet.
> >
> > But fare you weel, Auld Nickie-ben!
> > O wad ye tak a thought an' men'!
> > Ye aiblins might--I dinna ken--
> >     Still hae a stake:
> > I'm wae to think upo' yon den,
> >     Ev'n for your sake!
>
> Is this really appropriate for the merry rose?  Burns wrote
> it in 1786, so its hardly period!  Next will be seeing
> The Black Leather Band!  (For those who have been spared this,
> its a rambling 19th-century music-hall song about an unlucky
> irish hod-carrier).

Oops!  I made a typo in the subject line.
What I really wanted was for someone to post the
address to the _deli_.  Sorry for the confusion.

-- Alfredo

-- 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.att.com
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so that the micropyle is bent down to the funiculus to which
the body of the ovule is united.
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