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Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 25-01-2005
Happy Burns Night to all our Scottish friends.
I will be attending one here in Saudi Arabia but not until 3 February, due to the difficuly in booking a secure venue. Ye don't want a bomb put up ye kilt!
Re: Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 25-01-2005
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad 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 slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie 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;
The 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 mak her spew
Wi perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit:
Thro bloody 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 make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.
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!
try saying that when you're drunk.
with thanks tae robbie for the poem "to a haggis"
happy burns night, wish i was there,
ade!
Re: Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 25-01-2005
d'oh, forgot this bit. for anybody that doesn't understand what burn's night is all about, try here:
<A HREF="http://www.rabbie-burns.com/burnssupper/">http://www.rabbie-burns.com/burnssupper/</A>
ade!
Re: Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 25-01-2005
Well, I knew that it was nothing to do with Guy Fawkes!!!!!!
Re: Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 26-01-2005
If all his works were set alight, I for one would not attempt to put it out.
But each to his own, Happy Australia Day everyone.
Must go and clean up the barbie.
"Here's a bottle and an honest friend!
What wad ye wish for mair, man?"
Re: Happy Burns Night - Anonymous - 26-01-2005
Yeah, Happy Oz Day Don.