YE men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering
Gainst poor Excisemen? Give the cause a hearing:
What are your Landlords rent-rolls?Taxing ledgers!
What Premiers?What evn Monarchs?Mighty Gaugers!
Nay, what are Priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)
What are they, pray, but Spiritual Excisemen!
410. EpigramKirk and State Excisemen
written byRobert Burns
© Robert Burns