DOES HAUGHTY GAUL.
Does haughty Gaul invasion threat?
Then let the louns beware, Sir,
There’s wooden walls upon our seas,
And volunteers on shore, Sir.
The Nith shall rin to Corsicon,
The Criffel sink in Solway,
Ere we permit a foreign foe,
On British ground to rally.
Ere we permit, &c.
O let us not, like snarlin’ curs,
In wrangling be divided,
Till, slap! come in an unco loun,
And wi’ a rung decide it:
Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursels united,
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
For never, &c.
The kettle o’ the Kirk State,
Perhaps a clout may fail in’t:
But diel a foreign tinkler lonn
Shall ever ca* a nail in’t:
Our fathers’ blude the kettle bought?
And wha wad dare to spoil it?
By Heavens ! the sacrilegious dog
Shall fuel be to boil it!
By Heavens, &e.
The wretch that would a tyrant own,
And the wretch, his true sworn brother,
Who’d set the mob above the throne,
May they be damn d together.
Who will not sing, God save the king,
Shall hang as high’s tire steeple;
But while we sing, God save the king,
We’ll ne’er forget the_people.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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