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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Address to the Unco Guid, or The Rigidly Righteous</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Son, these maxims make a rule,<br>An' lump them aye thegither;<br>The Rigid Righteous is a fool,<br>The Rigid Wise anither:<br>The cleanest corn that ere was dight<br>May hae some pyles o' caff in;<br>So ne'er a fellow-creature slight<br>For random fits o' daffin.<br> Solomon.-Eccles. ch. vii. verse 16.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O ye wha are sae guid yoursel',<br> Sae pious and sae holy,<br> Ye've nought to do but mark and tell<br> Your neibours' fauts and folly!<br> Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill,<br> Supplied wi' store o' water;<br> The heaped happer's ebbing still,<br> An' still the clap plays clatter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hear me, ye venerable core,<br> As counsel for poor mortals<br> That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door<br> For glaikit Folly's portals:<br> I, for their thoughtless, careless sakes,<br> Would here propone defences-<br> Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes,<br> Their failings and mischances.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ye see your state wi' theirs compared,<br> And shudder at the niffer;<br> But cast a moment's fair regard,<br> What maks the mighty differ;<br> Discount what scant occasion gave,<br> That purity ye pride in;<br> And (what's aft mair than a' the lave),<br> Your better art o' hidin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Think, when your castigated pulse<br> Gies now and then a wallop!<br> What ragings must his veins convulse,<br> That still eternal gallop!<br> Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail,<br> Right on ye scud your sea-way;<br> But in the teeth o' baith to sail,<br> It maks a unco lee-way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> See Social Life and Glee sit down,<br> All joyous and unthinking,<br> Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown<br> Debauchery and Drinking:<br> O would they stay to calculate<br> Th' eternal consequences;<br> Or your more dreaded hell to state,<br> Damnation of expenses!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ye high, exalted, virtuous dames,<br> Tied up in godly laces,<br> Before ye gie poor Frailty names,<br> Suppose a change o' cases;<br> A dear-lov'd lad, convenience snug,<br> A treach'rous inclination-<br> But let me whisper i' your lug,<br> Ye're aiblins nae temptation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Then gently scan your brother man,<br> Still gentler sister woman;<br> Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,<br> To step aside is human:<br> One point must still be greatly dark, -<br> The moving Why they do it;<br> And just as lamely can ye mark,<br> How far perhaps they rue it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who made the heart, 'tis He alone<br> Decidedly can try us;<br> He knows each chord, its various tone,<br> Each spring, its various bias:<br> Then at the balance let's be mute,<br> We never can adjust it;<br> What's done we partly may compute,<br> But know not what's resisted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q>
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