At the last minute, he saw the danger and went around talking loudly about the need for republicans to wear sackcloth and ashes. |
And they need to wear their sackcloth and ashes, not in a back room, but openly. |
And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop. |
A strange sackcloth mask with two slit-like eyeholes is pulled over his head. |
Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. |
The sackcloth and ashes of 1999 are being cast off and he is not sorry now for campaigning against the Scottish parliament. |