Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer
lines oing with lord daer 注释标题 at the house of professald stewart. this wot ye all whom it s, i, rhymer robin, alias burns, october twenty-third, a o-be-fotten day, sae far i sprackl'd up the brae, i dinner'd wi' a lord. i've been at dru writers' feasts, nay, been bitang godly priests— wi' rev'rence be it spoken!— i've even join'd the honour'd jorum, when mighty squireships of the quorum, their hydra drouth did sloken. but wi' a lord!—stand out my shin, a lord—a peer—an earl's son! up higher yet, my bo an' sic a lord!—lang scoth ells twa, our peerage he o'erlooks them a', as i look o'er my so. but arth's magic pow'r! to show sir bardie's willyart glow'r, an' how he star'd and stammer'd, when, goavin, as if led wi' branks, an' stumpin on his ploughman shanks, he in the parlour hammer'd. i sidying shelter'd in a nook, an' at his lordship steal't a look, like some portentous omen; except good sense and social glee, an' (what surpris'd me) modesty, i marked nought unon. i watch'd the symptoms o' the great, the gentle pride, the lordly state, the arrogant assuming; the fient a pride, nae pride had he, nor sauor state, that i could see, mair than an ho ploughman. then from his lordship i shall learn, heh to meet with un one rank as weel's another; nae ho, worthy man need care to meet with noble youthful daer, for he but meets a brother.