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Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly (第2/2页)
what ragings must his veins convulse, that still eternal gallop! wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail, right on ye scud your sea-way; but in the teeth o' baith to sail, it maks a unco lee-way. see social life and glee sit down, all joyous and unthinking, till, quite transmugrified, they're grown debauchery and drinking: o would they stay to calculate th' eternal consequences; or your more dreaded hell to state, damnation of expenses! ye high, exalted, virtuous dames, tied up in godly laces, before ye gie poor frailty names, suppose a change o' cases; a dear-lov'd lad, convenience snug, a treach'rous inclination— but let me whisper i' your lug, ye're aiblins nae temptation. then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman; tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, to step aside is human: one point must still be greatly dark,— the moving why they do it; and just as lamely can ye mark, how far perhaps they rue it. who made the heart, 'tis he alone decidedly can try us; he knows each chord, its various tone, each spring, its various bias: then at the balance let's be mute, we never can adjust it; what's done we partly may compute, but know not what's resisted.