The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150339   Message #3504630
Posted By: Megan L
17-Apr-13 - 03:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who are the editors here?
Subject: RE: BS: Who are the editors here?
Sadly Ollaimh your may have genuine things to say but like many who are here now your vicious nastiness stops people from listening.

There are times I could willingly pit Gnu ower ma knees and skelp him for bein glaikit but I know him to be one of the finest people on this site, a genuinely caring loving friend does not judge people by race creed or colour. My fault that I do not get to talk to him as often as I once did but I will not stand back and see someone who quite obviously does not know anything about him.


I would remind you of the words of my National poet Robert Burns

"O ye wha are sae guid yoursel',
Sae pious and sae holy,
Ye've nought to do but mark and tell
Your neibours' fauts and folly!
Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill,
Supplied wi' store o' water;
The heaped happer's ebbing still,
An' still the clap plays clatter.

Hear me, ye venerable core,
As counsel for poor mortals
That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door
For glaikit Folly's portals:
I, for their thoughtless, careless sakes,
Would here propone defences-
Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes,
Their failings and mischances.

Ye see your state wi' theirs compared,
And shudder at the niffer;
But cast a moment's fair regard,
What maks the mighty differ;
Discount what scant occasion gave,
That purity ye pride in;
And (what's aft mair than a' the lave),
Your better art o' hidin.

Think, when your castigated pulse
Gies now and then a wallop!
What ragings must his veins convulse,
That still eternal gallop!
Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail,
Right on ye scud your sea-way;
But in the teeth o' baith to sail,
It maks a unco lee-way. "

The poem ends with this good advice

"
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human:
One point must still be greatly dark, -
The moving Why they do it;
And just as lamely can ye mark,
How far perhaps they rue it."