Ought that belang'd ye. was yours
A further fling at orthodoxy appeared in The Ordination, a piece written to comfort the Kilmarnock liberals when an Auld Licht minister was selected for the second charge there. The tone is again one of ironical congratulation, and Burns describes the rejoicings of the elect with infinite zest. Two stanzas on the church music will illustrate his method.
Mak haste an' turn King David owre, open the Psalms
An' lilt wi' holy clangor; sing
O' double verse come gie us fourgive
An' skirl up the Bangor: shriek, a Psalm-tune
This day the Kirk kicks up a stoure, dust
Nae mair the knaves shall wrang her, No more
For Heresy is in her pow'r,
And gloriously she'll whang her thrash