[straight]
Lang syne, in Eden's bonnie yard, [ago, garden]
When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd,
And all the soul of love they shar'd,
The raptur'd hour,
Sweet on the fragrant flow'ry swaird, [sward]
In shady bow'r;
Then you, ye auld snick-drawing dog! [scheming]
Ye cam to Paradise incog,
An' play'd on man a cursed brogue, [trick]
(Black be your fa!)
An' gied the infant warld a shog, [shake]
'Maist ruin'd a'.
D'ye mind that day, when in a bizz, [flurry]
Wi' reekit duds, an' reestit gizz, [smoky rags, scorched wig]
Ye did present your smoutie phiz [smutty]
'Mang better folk,
An' sklented on the man of Uz [squinted]
Your spitefu' joke?
An' how ye gat him i' your thrall,
An' brak him out o' house an' hal', [holding]
While scabs an' blotches did him gall
Wi' bitter claw,
An' lows'd his ill-tongu'd wicked scaul, [loosed, scold]
Was warst ava? [of all]
But a' your doings to rehearse,
Your wily snares an' fechtin' fierce, [fighting]
Sin' that day Michael did you pierce,
Down to this time,
Wad ding a' Lallan tongue, or Erse, [heat, Lowland]
In prose or rhyme.
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