The wind blew as ’twad blawn its last;
The rattling showers rose on the blast;
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
Hamish MacDonald reads Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, with illustrations by Gary Welsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqVwCa_x5o
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