Document 738
The Emmick and the Gresslouper
Author(s): Tom Hubbard
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Wha tuik ti winchin Maistress Emmick;
Ilkane the ither socht ti impress,
For insects, tae, are biochemic.
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The emmick – she’s a fly yin, thon –
Speirs the gresslouper, ‘Will ye wad me?’
‘Ay! Whit fir no?’ is his repone,
‘I’m a fine figure o a lad, me.’
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Thon posh hotel upon the ben
Bids walcome: but thon’s no the hale o’t –
Gresslouper loups ower faur, and then!
Upon the thristle he’s impalit.
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Ye suid hae heard her cairry on!
The sair mishanter had fair shocked her.
She’s ower the loch, and or the dawn
She’ll fetch some big braw insect-Doctor.
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It wis the April she set oot –
She wisna back ontil December.
Her Doctor bizzed thon corp aboot
That Fate sae sairly cuid dismember.
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And that wis it: Fate, naethin mair,
Wis this great Doctor’s diagnosis.
Oor emmick grat, ‘It isnae fair,
I’m aa my lane; hou haurd my loss is.’
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‘A weedow, but young lass forby!
Nae mair this weary warld I’d crawl …’ Och,
Lat’s end her story on a high,
I’ the airms o Doctor Horniegoloch.
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