Address T A Haggis
address to a haggis fair fa' your ho, sonsie face, great chieftain o' the pudding-race! aboon them a' yet tak your place, painch, tripe, or thairm: weel are ye wordy o'a grace as lang's my arm. the groaning trehere ye fill, your hurdies like a distant hill, your pin was help to mend a mill in time o'need, while thro' your pores the dews distil like amber bead. his knife see rustic labht, an' cut you up wi' ready sleight, treng yushirails bright, like ony ditch; and then, o what a glorious sight, warm-reekin', rich! then, horn for horn, they stret' strive: deil tak the hindmost! on they drive, till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve are bent like drums; then 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 make her spew wi' perfect ser, looks down wi' sneering, sfu' view on sic a dinner? poor devil! see him owre his trash, as feckles as wither'd rash, his spindle shank, a guid whip-lash; his nieve a nit; thro' blody flood or field to dash, o how unfit! but mark the rustic, haggis-fed, the tremblih resounds his tread. clap in his walie nieve a blade, he'll mak it whissle; an' legs an' arms, an' hands will sned, like taps o' trissle. 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!