Searching auld wives’ barrels,Ochon the day!That clarty barm should stain my laurels:But—what’ll ye say?These movin’ things ca’d wives an’ weans,Wad move the very hearts o’ stanes!
1789 · Poem
Extemporaneous Effusion
On being appointed to an Excise division
- Year
- 1789
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Ellisland
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns