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diff --git a/25733.txt b/25733.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fab488 --- /dev/null +++ b/25733.txt @@ -0,0 +1,733 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tam O'Shanter, by Robert Burns + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Tam O'Shanter + +Author: Robert Burns + +Illustrator: Harry L. Miller + +Release Date: June 9, 2008 [EBook #25733] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TAM O'SHANTER *** + + + + +Produced by Tamise Totterdell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: She tauld thee well thou was a skellum.] + + + + + Tam O' Shanter. + + Robert Burns. + + + Decorations + by + Harry L. Miller. + + + The + Saalfield Publishing Company. + Akron Ohio + New York Chicago. + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1908. + BY + THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY. + + + + +[Illustration: List of Decorations.] + + + Page + + "She tauld thee well thou was a skellum" Frontispiece + + "The landlady and Tam grew gracious" 13 + + "Well mounted on his grey mare, Meg" 19 + + "The dancers quick and quicker flew" 27 + + + + +TAM O' SHANTER + +BY + +ROBERT BURNS + + + + +Tam o' Shanter. + +A Tale. + + + WHEN chapman billies leave the street, + And drouthy neebors, neebors meet, + As market-days are wearing late, + An' folk begin to tak the gate; + While we sit bousing at the nappy, + An' getting fou and unco happy, + We think na on the lang Scots miles, + The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, + That lie between us and our hame, + Whar sits our sulky sullen dame, + Gathering her brows like gathering storm, + Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. + + This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, + As he frae Ayr ae night did canter + (Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town surpasses + For honest men and bonny lasses). + + O Tam! hadst thou but been sae wise, + As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice! + She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, + A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum; + That frae November till October, + Ae market-day thou was nae sober; + That lika melder, wi' the miller, + Thou sat as lang as thou had siller; + That ev'ry naig was ca'd a shoe on, + The smith and thee gat roaring fou on; + That at the L--d's house, ev'n on Sunday, + Thou drank wi' Kirton Jean till Monday. + She prophesy'd that late or soon, + Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon; + Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, + By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. + +[Illustration: The landlady and Tam grew gracious.] + + Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet, + To think how mony counsels sweet, + How mony lengthen'd sage advices, + The husband frae the wife despises! + + But to our tale: Ae market night, + Tam had got planted unco right; + Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, + Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; + And at his elbow, Souter Johnny, + His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; + Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; + They had been fou for weeks thegither. + The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter; + And ay the ale was growing better: + The landlady and Tam grew gracious, + Wi' favors, secret, sweet, and precious: + The Souter tauld his queerest stories; + The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: + The storm without might rair and rustle, + Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. + + Care, mad to see a man sae happy, + E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy, + As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, + The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: + Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, + O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! + + But pleasures are like poppies spread, + You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; + Or like the snow-falls in the river, + A moment white--then melt forever; + Or like the borealis race, + That flit ere you can point their place; + Or like the rainbow's lovely form + Evanishing amid the storm.-- + Nae man can tether time or tide; + The hour approaches Tam maun ride; + That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, + That dreary hour he mounts his beast in, + And sic a night he taks the road in; + As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. + +[Illustration: Well mounted on his grey mare, Meg.] + + The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; + The rattling show'rs rose on the blast; + The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd; + Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed: + That night, a child might understand, + The deil had business on his hand. + + Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, + A better never lifted leg, + Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, + Despising wind, and rain, and fire; + Whiles holding fast his gude blue bonnet; + Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet; + Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, + Lest bogles catch him unawares: + Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, + Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry.-- + + By this time he was cross the ford, + Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; + And past the birks and meikie stane, + Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; + And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, + Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; + And near the thorn, aboon the well, + Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.-- + Before him Doon pours all his floods; + The doubling storm roars thro' the woods; + The lightnings flash from pole to pole; + Near and more near the thunders roll: + When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, + Kirk-Alloway seem'd in a bleeze; + Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing; + And loud resounded mirth and dancing.-- + + Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! + What dangers thou canst make us scorn; + Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; + Wi' usquabae we'll face the devil!-- + The swats sae ream'd in Tammie's noddle, + Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle. + But Maggie stood right sair astonish'd, + Till, by the heel and hand admonish'd, + She ventur'd forward on the light: + And, vow! Tam saw an unco sight! + Warlocks and witches in a dance; + Nae cotillion brent new frae France, + But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, + Put life and mettle in their heels. + A winnock-bunker in the east, + There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; + A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, + To gie them music was his charge; + He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, + Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.-- + Coffins stood round, like open presses, + That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; + And by some devilish cantrip slight, + Each in its cauld hand held a light.-- + By which heroic Tam was able + To note upon the haly table, + A murderer's banes in gibbet airns; + Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; + A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, + Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; + Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; + Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; + A garter, which a babe had strangled; + A knife, a father's throat had mangled, + Whom his ain son o' life bereft, + The gray hairs yet stack to the heft: + Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', + Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. + +[Illustration: The dancers quick and quicker flew.] + + As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, + The mirth and fun grew fast and furious: + The piper loud and louder blew: + The dancers quick and quicker flew; + They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, + Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, + And coost her duddies to the wark, + And linket at it in her sark! + Now Tam, O Tam! had thae been queans + A' plump and strapping, in their teens: + Their sarks, instead o' creeshie flannen, + Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen! + Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, + That ance were plush, o' gude blue hair, + I wad hae gi'en them off my hurdies, + For ae blink o' the bonnie burdies! + + But wither'd beldams, auld and droll, + Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal, + Lowping an' flinging on a crummock, + I wonder didna turn thy stomach. + + But Tam kend what was what fu' brawlie, + There was ae winsome wench and walie, + That night enlisted in the core + (Lang after kend on Carrick shore; + For mony a beast to dead she shot, + And perish'd mony a bonnie boat, + And shook baith meikle corn and bear, + And kept the country-side in fear), + Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, + That while a lassie she had worn, + In longitude tho' sorely scanty, + It was her best, and she was vauntie.-- + Ah! little kend thy reverend grannie, + That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, + Wi' twa pund Scots ('twas a' her riches), + Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches! + + But here my muse her wing maun cour; + Sic flights are far beyond her pow'r; + To sing how Nannie lap and flang + (A souple jade she was and strang), + And how Tam stood like ane bewitch'd, + And thought his very een enrich'd; + Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain, + And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main: + Till first ae caper, syne anither, + Tam tint his reason a' thegither, + And roars out, "Weel done, Cutty-sark!" + And in an instant all was dark; + And scarcely had he Maggie rallied, + When out the hellish legion sallied. + + As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, + When plundering herds assail their byke; + As open pussie's mortal foes, + When, pop! she starts before their nose; + As eager runs the market-crowd, + When "Catch the thief!" resounds aloud; + So Maggie runs, the witches follow, + Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow. + + Ah, Tam! Ah, Tam! thou'll get thy fairin! + In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin! + In vain thy Kate awaits thy coming! + Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! + Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, + An win the key-stane[A] of the brig; + There at them thou thy tail may toss, + A running stream they dare na cross. + But ere the key-stane she could make, + The fient a tail she had to shake! + For Nannie, far before the rest, + Hard upon noble Maggie prest, + And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; + But little wist she Maggie's mettle-- + Ae spring brought off her master hale, + But left behind her ain gray tail: + The carlin claught her by the rump, + And left poor Maggie scarce a stump. + + Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read, + Ilk man and mother's son, take heed; + Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd, + Or cutty-sarks run in your mind, + Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, + Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare. + +[Footnote A: It is a well-known fact that witches, or any evil +spirits, have no power to follow a poor wight any farther than +the middle of the next running stream.--It may be proper +likewise to mention to the benighted traveller, that when he +falls in with _bogles_, whatever danger may be in his going +forward, there is much more hazard in turning back.] + + + Finis. + + + +-------------------------------------------+ + |Transcriber's Note: | + | | + |The use of "vow" and the stanza breaks | + |have been retained as in the original book.| + +-------------------------------------------+ + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tam O'Shanter, by Robert Burns + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TAM O'SHANTER *** + +***** This file should be named 25733.txt or 25733.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/7/3/25733/ + +Produced by Tamise Totterdell and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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