How Nannie Leaped and Kicked
All Resolutions
But here my muse her wing must curb,
Such flights as far beyond her power:
To sing how Nannie leaped and kicked
(A supple youth she was and strong);
And how Tam stood like one bewitched.
Description:
Witches are having a sabbath dance to the music of the Devil playing the bagpipe in the foreground, illuminated by the light of torches held by corpses in coffins propped upright, while a stunned Tam O’Shanter watches from a window, wearing his signature bonnet.
The caption reads in the original:
But here my muse her wing maun cour;
Sic flights are far beyond her pow’r;
To sing how Nannie lap and flang,
(A souple jade she was, and strang),
And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch’d.
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