Re: Merry Christmas!

Marshall wrote:

> Thou art allowed to dislike it, but a nod o' the head towards
> Robert Burns is required.
>

"heid" surely ? ;)

How's about the final stanza of "Is there for honest poverty ?" (aka "A Man's A Man For A' That") :

Then let us pray that come it may -

   As come it will, for a' that -
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth

   Shall bear the gree, an a' that;

      For a' that, an' a' that,
         It's comin' yet for a' that,
      That man to man the world o'er,
         Shall brothers be for a' that.

> Marshall
>
> PS. Not the least bit Scottish, but the poets must have their due.

Indeed - oftentimes I put myself off posting by remembering, from "To a louse"

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us !
It wad frae mony a blunder free us

   An' foolish notion :
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us

   And ev'n Devotion !

You've no idea from just how many cr*p postings that verse has spared you all ! Received on Wed Dec 27 2006 - 00:04:37 CET