d,
Where in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; [smothered]
And past the birks and meikle stane, [birches, big]
Where drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane;
And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, [gorse, pile of stones]
Where hunters fand the murder'd bairn; [found]
And near the thorn, aboon the well,
Where 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; [blaze]
Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing; [chink]
And loud resounded mirth and dancing.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make us scorn?
Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; [ale]
Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil! [whisky]
The swats sae ream'd in Tammie's noddle, [ale]
Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle! [farthing]
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! [strange]
Warlocks and witches in a dance!
Nae cotillon brent new frae France, [brand]
But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,
Put life and mettle in their heels.
A winnock-bunker in the east, [window-seat]
There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast--
A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large! [shaggy dog]
To gie them music was his charge:
He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl. [squeal]
Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. [ring]
Coffins stood round like open presses,
That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses;
And by some devilish cantraip sleight [magic trick]
Each in its cauld hand held a light,
By which heroic Tam was able
To note upon the haly table [holy]
A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns; [-irons]
Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns;
A thief ne