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The Vision (第1/5页)
the vision duan first the sun had clos'd the winter day, the curless quat their roarin play, and hunger'd maukin taen her way, to kail-yards green, while faithless snaws ilk step betray whare she has been. the thresher's weary flingin-tree, the lee-lang day had tired me; and when the day had clos'd his e'e, far i' the west, ben i' the spence, right pensivelie, i gaed to rest. there, lanely by the ingle-cheek, i sat and ey'd the spewing reek, that fill'd, wi' hoast-provoking smeek, the auld clay biggin; an' heard the restless rattons squeak about the riggin. all in this mottie, misty clime, i backward mus'd on wasted time, how i had spent my youthfu' prime, an' done hing, but stringing blethers up in rhyme, for fools to sing. had i to guid advice but harkit, i might, by this, hae led a market, or strutted in a bank and clarkit my cash-at; while here, half-mad, half-fed, half-sarkit. is a' th' amount. i started, mutt'ring, “blockhead! coof!” and heav'd on high my waukit loof, to swear by a' yon starry roof, or some rash aith, that i heh wad be rhyme-proof till my last breath— when click! the string the snick did draw; ahe daed to the wa'; an' by my ingle-lowe i saw, now bleezin bright, a tight, outlandish hizzie, braw, e full in sight. ye need na doubt, i held my whisht; the infant aith, half-form'd, was crusht i glowr'd as eerie's i'd been dusht in some wild glen; whe, like ho worth, she blusht, an' stepped ben. green, slender, leaf-clad holly-boughs were twisted, gracefu', round her brows; i took her for some scottish muse, by that same token; and e to stop those reckless vows, would soon been broken. a “hair-brain'd, seal trace” was strongly marked in her f