What was I, or my generation,

That I should get sic exaltation,

I wha deserve sic just damnation,

For broken laws,

Five thousand years 'fore my creation,

Thro' Adam's cause?

When frae my mither's womb I fell,

Thou might ha'e plunged me deep in hell,

To gnash my gums, to weep an' wail,

In burnin' lake,