Miscellanies in prose and verse on several occasions, by Claudero [i.e. James Wilson], son of Nimrod the Mighty Hunter. The Fourth Edition with large Additions |
A Hymn for the Thistle Lodge.
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A Hymn for the Thistle Lodge.
Wrote on seeing the Copy of a certain Challenge.
Why rage the heathen, and vain thingsDoes Tam of Bedlam mind?
For surely all the Thistle Lodge
Against him are combin'd,
To plot against his mighty sway,
And to extirpate quite
Mad Tam from their society
Gives to them all delight.
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And the two Wardens jeer,
The Lodge united join in scorn,
Which has reach'd Mad Tam's ear;
And now he swears a weighty sword
He'll take into his hand;
Heads young and Auld he will shear off;
From the mischievous band.
Now therefore be admonished,
Join trembling with your mirth;
For Mad Tam is a Bedlamite
Of fortune and of birth.
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