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[Y loved, my honoured, much-respected 
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 No mercenary bard his homage pays; 
 With ^lonest pride, I scorn each selfish end ; 
 My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and 
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 To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, 
 The lowly train in life's sequestered scene; 
 The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; 
 What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; 
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 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; 
 
 The short'ning winter-day is near a close; 
 The miry beasts retreating frae the pleiigh ; 
 
 The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: 
 The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, 
 
 This night his weekly moil is at an end, 
 Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, 
 
 Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend. 
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At length his lonely cot appears in view, 
 
 Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; 
 Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher throiitrh 
 
 To meet their dad, wi' flichtorin noise n' gl, . 
 His wee bit ingle, blinkin bnnnily, 
 
 His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie witio's mile, 
 The l!s])ing infant prattling on his knee, 
 
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Belyve, the elder bairns come drapping in, 
 
 At service cut, amang the farmers roun' ; 
 Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin 
 
 A cannie errand to a neebour town: 
 Their eldest liope, tlieir Jenny, woman grown, 
 
 In youthfu' bloom, love sparkling in her e'e, 
 Comes hame, perhaps, to show a braw new gown, 
 
 Or deposit her sair-won penny-fee, 
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Wi' joy unfeigned, brothers and sisters meet, 
 
 An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: 
 The social hours, swift-winged, unnoticed fleet; 
 
 Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears; 
 The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; 
 
 Anticipation forward points the view. 
 The mother, vvi' her needle an' her shears, 
 
 Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; 
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Their master's an' their mistress's command, 
 
 The yonkers a' are warned to obey ; 
 An' mind their labours wi' an eydent hand, 
 
 An' ne'er, though out o' sight, to jauk or play: 
 "An' oh! be sure to fear the Lord ahvay, 
 
 An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night! 
 Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray. 
 Implore His counsel and assisting might : 
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 But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; 
 
 Jenny, wlia kens the meaning o' the same, 
 Tells how a neebour lad cam o'er the moor. 
 
 To do some errands, and convoy her hame 
 The wily motlicr sees the conscious flame 
 
 Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; 
 Wi' heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, 
 
 While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak; 
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Wi' kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben; 
 
 A strappan youth; ho takes the niotiier's eye; 
 Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en; 
 
 The fother cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. 
 The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, 
 
 But blato an' laithfu', scarce can weel behave; 
 The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy 
 
 What makes the youth sac bashfu' an' sae grave; 
 Weel pleased to think her bakn's respected like the lave. 
 
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'Tis when a ymithful, lovlnpr. modest pair, 
 
 111 other's iirins brciUlie (lut the tender tale, 
 Beneath the iiiilk-whlte thorn that scents the ev'nlng gale. 
 
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 O happy love! where love like this is found! 
 
 O hotirt-felt raptures! bliss beyond conipurel 
 I've paced much this weary, mortal round, 
 
 And sage experience bids me this di'clare — 
 " If Ileav'n a drau^jbt of heav'nly pleasure spare, 
 
 One cordial in this melancholy vale, 
 Tis when a youthful, lo\ing, modest pair, 
 
 In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, 
 Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale." 
 
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 Is tliere, in human form, that bears a heart— 
 
 A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! 
 That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, 
 
 Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? 
 Curse on his perjured arts! dissembling smooth! 
 
 Arc honour, virtue, conscience, all exiled? 
 Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, 
 
 Points to the parents fondling o'er their child? 
 Then paints the ruined maid, and their distraction wild! 
 
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But now the supper crowns their simple board, 
 
 The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food : 
 The buupe their only hawkie does afford, 
 
 That 'yoijt the hallan snugly chows her cood; 
 The dame brnigs forth in complimental mood. 
 
 To grace the lad, her weelhain'd kebbuck, fell, 
 An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; 
 
 The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell. 
 How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. 
 
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious laeo, 
 
 They, round the ingle, foiiii a circle; wide; 
 The sire turns o'er, wi' patiiarclial grace, 
 
 The big ha' Bible, ance his lather's i)ride: 
 His bonnet rev'rently is laid a-ide, 
 
 His lyart hafFets wearing thin an' bare; 
 Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, 
 
 He wales a portion with judicious care ; 
 And " Let us worship God !" he says, with solemn air. 
 
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They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; 
 
 They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim: 
 Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise. 
 
 Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name; 
 Or noble Elgin beets the Heav'nward flame, 
 
 The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays ; 
 Compared with these, Italian trills are tame •■ 
 
 The tickled ears no heart-felt raptures raise; 
 iNae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. 
 
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 The priest-like father reads the sacred page. 
 
The priest-like father reads the sacred page, 
 
 How Abram was the friend of CJod en high; 
 Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage 
 
 With Amak'k's ungracious progeny; 
 Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie 
 
 Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; 
 Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; 
 
 Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; 
 Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. 
 
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 Perlmps the Christian volume is the theme, 
 
 How guiltless hlood for guilty man was shed; 
 How Me, who hore in Heaven the second name, 
 
 Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; 
 How His first followers and servants sped; 
 
 The precepts sage tliey wrote to many a land: 
 How he, who lone in Patmos hanished, 
 
 Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; 
 And heard r -eat Bah'lon's doom pr- iiounced by Heavens 
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Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, 
 
 The saint, the father, and the husband prays : 
 Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing,"* 
 
 That thus they all shall meet in future days; 
 There ever bask in uncreated rays, 
 
 No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, 
 Together hymning their Creator's praise, 
 
 In such society, yet still more dear ; 
 While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere 
 
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Compared with this, how poor Rehgion's pride, 
 
 In all the pomp of method, and of art, 
 When men display to congregations wide 
 Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart 1 
 The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, 
 
 The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole; 
 But haply, in some cottage far apart, 
 
 May hear, well pleased, the language of the soul, 
 And in His hook of life the inmates poor enroll. 
 
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The pareiit-pnir their sorrot liomBRe pay, 
 And proffer op to Heaven the warm request. 
 
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 Then homewurd all tiike oif their sev'ml way; 
 
 The youngling cottagers retire to rest: 
 The parent-pair their secret homage pay, 
 
 And profler uj) to Heaven the warm request, 
 That lie wlio stills the raven's clam'rous nest, 
 
 And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, 
 Would, in tlie way His wisdom sees the best, 
 
 For them and for their little ones provide; 
 But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. 
 
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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, 
 
 That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : 
 Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 
 
 "An honest man's the noblest work of God:" 
 And certes, in fair Virtue's heav'nly road, 
 
 The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; 
 What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, 
 
 Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, 
 Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! 
 
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Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! 
 
 For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! 
 Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil 
 
 Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! 
 And, oh, may Heaven their simple lives prevent 
 
 From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! 
 Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, 
 
 A virtuous populace may rise the while, 
 And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. 
 
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 Thou! who poured the patr'jli-; tide 
 
 That streamed through vVullact-'f? raidaunted heart 
 Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride, 
 
 Or nobly die, the second glorious part, 
 (The patriot's God, peculiarly, Thou ar\ 
 
 Tlis Friend, Inspirer, Guardian, and Reward!) 
 never, never, Scotia's realm desert ; 
 
 But still the patriot, and the patriot-bard, 
 In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard ! 
 
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