To lilt your Johnnie.
A still funnier parody was published in Punch, also said to be an unpublished poem by Burns. It consisted of three verses, but the first is quite sufficient to show the nature of the joke:
Justice to Scotland.
(Communicated by the Edinburgh Society
for promoting civilization in England.)
O Mickle yeuks the keckle doup,
An’ a’ unsicker girns the graith,
For wae and wae! the crowdies loup
O’er jouk an’ hallan, braw an’ baith.
Where ance the coggie hirpled fair,
And blithesome poortith toomed the loof,