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COMIC AND HUMOROUS.

SATIRICAL.

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Yet I am here a chosen sample,
To show thy grace is great and am-
ple;

I'm here a pillar in thy temple,
Strong as a rock,

A guide, a buckler, an example
To a' thy flock.

O Lord, thou kens what zeal I bear, When drinkers drink, and swearers

swear,

And singing there, and dancing here,
Wi' great and sma':

For I am keepit by thy fear,
Free frae them a'.

But yet, O Lord! confess I must,
At times I'm fashed wi' fleshly lust,
An' sometimes, too, wi' warldly
trust,-

Vile self gets in;

But thou remembers we are dust, Defiled in sin.

Maybe thou lets this fleshly thorn Beset thy servant e'en and morn, Lest he owre high and proud should

turn,

'Cause he's sae gifted: If sae, thy hand maun e'en be borne,

Until thou lift it.

Lord, bless thy chosen in this place, For here thou hast a chosen race; But God confound their stubborn face.

And blast their name, Wha bring thy elders to disgrace, An' public shame.

Lord, mind Gawn Hamilton's deserts,

He drinks, an' swears, an' plays at cartes,

Yet has sae monie takin' arts,
Wi' great and sma',

Frae God's ain priests the people's hearts

He steals awa'.

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