What a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
I am reminded this election year of the 2nd stanza of Robert Burns poem.
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages.
Robert Burns, 1791
An instrumental version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPi3...
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages.
Robert Burns, 1791
An instrumental version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPi3...
Secure in valour's station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I'll mak this declaration;
We're bought and sold for English gold-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
In our case...
We've not been sold for English gold,
But have paid for that privilege,
By cowards and traitors with Our wages,
So that we might be further pillaged.
PS...I was mentored by a direct decedent of Wallace...(may your bow finger always be fair)