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:

own

stuck. haft.

And how Tam stood like ane bewitched,
And thought his very een enriched;
Even Satan glowred and fidged fu' fain,
And hotched and blew mi' might and main:
Till first ae caper, syne anither,
Tam tint his reason a' thegither,

one eyes

stared, fidgeted

moved then

lost, together

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:

own stuck. haft.

And how Tam stood like ane bewitched,
And thought his very een enriched;
Even Satan glowred and fidged fu' fain,
And hotched and blew mi' might and main :
Till first ae caper, syne anither,
Tam tint his reason a' thegither,

one

eyes

stared, fidgeted

moved then

lost, together

Ae spring brought off her master hale, But left behind her ain gray tail,

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