address to a haggis
fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
aboon them a' yet tak your place,
painch, tripe, or thairm:
weel are ye wordy o'a grace
as lang's my arm.
the groaning trencher there ye fill,
your hurdies like a distant hill,
your pin was help to mend a mill
in time o'need,
while thro' your pores the dews distil
like amber bead.
his knife see rustic labour dight,
an' cut you up wi' ready sleight,
trenching your gushing entrails bright,
like ony ditch;
and then, o what a glorious sight,
warm-reekin', rich!
then, horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:
deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
are bent like drums;
then auld guidman, maist like to rive,
bethankit! hums.