To a Louse-Frederick Worlock

[ti:To a Louse] [ar:Frederick Worlock] [al:Poetry of Robert Burns] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To a Louse - Frederick Worlock [00:00.35]Ha whare ye gaun ye crowlin' ferlie [00:03.31] [00:04.20]Your impudence protects you sairly [00:06.59]I canna say but ye strunt rarely [00:09.04]Owre gauze and lace [00:10.65]Tho' faith I fear ye dine but sparely [00:13.31]On sic a place [00:14.57] [00:15.61]Ye ugly creepin' blastit wonner [00:18.05] [00:18.69]Detested shunned by saunt an' sinner [00:21.44]How daur ye set your fit upon her [00:23.75]Sae fine a lady [00:24.87]Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner [00:27.16]On some poor body [00:28.33] [00:29.11]Swith in some beggar's haffet squattle [00:32.24]There ye may creep and sprawl and sprattle [00:35.37]Wi' ither kindred jumpin cattle [00:37.62]In shoals and nations [00:39.28]Whare horn or bane ne'er daur unsettle [00:42.72]Your thick plantations [00:44.16] [00:44.87]Now haud ye there ye're out o' sight [00:47.82]Below the fatt'rels snug an' tight [00:49.87] [00:50.43]Na faith ye yet ye'll no be right [00:53.42]Till ye've got on it [00:55.07]The vera tapmost towering height [00:57.62]O' Miss's bonnet [00:58.68] [00:59.95]My sooth right bauld ye set your nose out [01:03.20]As plump an' grey as onie grozet [01:05.75]O for some rank mercurial rozet [01:08.89]Or fell red smeddum [01:10.69]I'd gie ye sic a hearty dose o't [01:13.10]Wad dress your droddum [01:14.70] [01:16.66]I wad na been surprised to spy [01:19.35]You on an auld wife's flainen toy [01:21.75] [01:22.65]Or aiblins some bit duddie boy [01:25.31]On's wyliecoat [01:26.42] [01:27.21]But Miss's fine Lunardi fie [01:29.99] [01:30.71]How daur ye do't [01:31.85] [01:32.69]O Jenny dinna toss your head [01:34.94]An' set your beauties a' abread [01:37.01] [01:38.36]Ye little ken what cursed speed [01:40.76]The blastie's makin' [01:41.89] [01:43.39]Thae winks and finger-ends I dread [01:46.23]Are notice takin' [01:47.39] [01:49.77]O wad some Power the giftie gie us [01:52.63] [01:53.22]To see oursels as others see us [01:56.10] [01:57.36]It wad frae monie a blunder free us [02:00.60]An' foolish notion [02:02.05] [02:02.79]What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us [02:05.92]And ev'n Devotion