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The Twa Dogs (第2/5页)
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what sort o' life ps like you have;
an' when the gentry's life i saw,
what oor bodies liv'd ava.
our laird gets in his racked rents,
his coals, his kane, an' a' his stents:
he rises when he likes himsel';
his flunkies a the bell;
he ca's his coach; he ca's his horse;
he draws a bonie silken purse,
as lang's my tail, where, thro' the steeks,
the yellow letter'd geordie keeks.
frae morn to e'en, it's nought but toiling
at baking, roasting, frying, boiling;
an' tho' the gentry first are ste,
yet ev'n the ha' folk fill their pe
wi' sauce, ragouts, an' sic like trashtrie,
that's little short o' dht wastrie.
our whipper-in, wee, blasted wonner,
poor, worthless elf, it eats a dinner,
better than o-man
his honour has in a' the lan':
an' oor cot-folk pit their pain,
i own it's past my prehension.
luath
trowth, caesar, whiles they're fash't eneugh:
a cottar howkin in a sheugh,
wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke,
baring a quarry, an' sic like;
himsel', a wife, he thus sustains,
a smytrie o' wee duddie weans,
an' nought but his han'-daurk, to keep
them right an' tight in tha' rape.
an' when they meet wi' sair disasters,
like loss o' health or want o' masters,
ye maist wad think, a wee touch langer,
an' they maun starve o' cauld an' hunger:
but how it es, i never ke,
they're maistly wonderfu' tented;
an' buirdly chiels, an' clever hizzies,
are bred in sic a way as this is.
caesar
but then to see how ye're ,
how huff'd, an' cuff'd, an' disrespeckit!
lord man, entry care as little
for delvers, ditchers, an' sic cattle;
they gang as saucy by poor folk,
as i wad by a stinkin brock.
i've notic'd, on our laird's court-day,—
an' mony a time my heart's been wae,—
poor tenant bodies, st o'cash,
ho
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