Kirk and State Excisemen
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns 作者：Robert Burns 投票推荐 加入书签 留言反馈
kirk and state excisemen
ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering
'gainst poor excisemen? give the cause a hearing:
what are your landlord's rent-rolls? taxing ledgers!
what premiers? what ev'n monarchs? mighty gaugers!
nay, what are priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)
what are they, pray, but spiritual excisemen!
ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering
'gainst poor excisemen? give the cause a hearing:
what are your landlord's rent-rolls? taxing ledgers!
what premiers? what ev'n monarchs? mighty gaugers!
nay, what are priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)
what are they, pray, but spiritual excisemen!