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The Holy Fair (第3/5页)
chairs that day. o happy is that man, an' blest! nae wohat it pride him! whase ain dear lass, that he likes best, es kin down beside him! wi' arms repos'd on the chair back, he sweetly does pose him; which, by degrees, slips round her neck, an's loof upon her bosom, uhat day. now a' the gregation o'er is silent expectation; for moodie speels the holy door, wi' tidings o' damnation: should hornie, as in a days, 'mang sons o' god present him, the vera sight o' moodie's face, to 's ai hame had sent him wi' fright that day. hear how he clears the point o' faith wi' rattlin and wi' thumpin! now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, he's stampin, an' he's jumpin! his lengthen'd , his turned-up snout, his eldritch squeel aures, o how they fire the heart devout, like tharidian plaisters on sic a day! but hark! the tent has g'd its voice, there's pea' rest nae langer; for a' the real judges rise, they a sit fer, smith opens out his cauld harangues, on practid on morals; an' aff the godly pour in thrangs, to gie the jars an' barrels a lift that day. what signifies his barren shine, of moral powers an' reason? his english style, aure fine are a' out o' season. like socrates or antonine, or some auld pagahen, the moral man he does define, but ne'er a word o' faith in that's right that day. in guid time es an antidote against sic poison'd nostrum; for peebles, frae the water-fit, asds the holy rostrum: see, up he's got, the word o' god, an' meek an' mim has view'd it, while on-sens
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