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Let not ambition mock their useful toil	A
Their homely joys and destiny obscure	B
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile	C
The short and simple annals of the poor	D
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Gray	E
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My lov'd my honour'd much respected friend	F
No mercenary bard his homage pays	G
With honest pride I scorn each selfish end	F
My dearest meed a friend's esteem and praise	G
To you I sing in simple Scottish lays	G
The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene	H
The native feelings strong the guileless ways	G
What Aiken in a cottage would have been	I
Ah tho' his work unknown far happier there I ween	I
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II	-
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November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh	J
The short'ning winter day is near a close	K
The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh	J
The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose	L
The toil worn Cotter frae his labour goes	L
This night his weekly moil is at an end	F
Collects his spades his mattocks and his hoes	L
Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend	F
And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend	F
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III	-
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At length his lonely cot appears in view	J
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree	M
Th' expectant wee things toddlin' stacher thro'	M
To meet their Dad wi' flichterin' noise an' glee	M
His wee bit ingle blinkin' bonnily	M
His clean hearth stane his thriftie Wifie's smile	M
The lisping infant prattling on his knee	M
Does a' his weary kiaugh and care beguile	M
An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil	M
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IV	J
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Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in	I
At service out amang the farmers roun'	I
Some ca' the pleugh some herd some tentie rin	I
A cannie errand to a neebor town	I
Their eldest hope their Jenny woman grown	I
In youthfu' bloom love sparkling in her e'e	M
Comes hame perhaps to shew a braw new gown	I
Or deposite her sair won penny fee	M
To help her parents dear if they in hardship be	M
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V	M
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With joy unfeign'd brothers and sisters meet	N
An' each for other's welfare kindly spiers	O
The social hours swift wing'd unnotic'd fleet	N
Each tells the unco's that he sees or hears	P
The parents partial eye their hopeful years	Q
Anticipation forward points the view	J
The Mother wi' her needle an' her shears	P
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new	J
The Father mixes a' wi' admonition due	J
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VI	J
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Their master's an' their mistress's command	R
The younkers a' are warned to obey	E
And mind their labours wi' an eydent hand	R
An' ne'er tho' out of sight to jauk or play	E
And O be sure to fear the Lord alway	S
And mind your duty duly morn and night	T
Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray	E
Implore His counsel and assisting might	T
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright	T
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VII	J
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But hark a rap comes gently to the door	M
Jenny wha kens the meaning o' the same	U
Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor	M
To do some errands and convoy her hame	U
The wily Mother sees the conscious flame	U
Sparkle in Jenny's e'e and flush her cheek	V
With heart struck anxious care inquires his name	U
While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak	V
Weel pleas'd the Mother hears it's nae wild worthless rake	W
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VIII	J
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Wi' kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben	I
A strappan youth he taks the Mother's eye	J
Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en	I
The Father cracks of horses pleughs and kye	J
The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy	X
But blate an laithfu' scarce can weel behave	J
The Mother wi' a woman's wiles can spy	J
What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave	J
Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave	J
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IX	P
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O happy love Where love like this is found	T
O heart felt raptures bliss beyond compare	M
I've paced much this weary mortal round	T
And sage experience bids me this declare	M
If heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare	M
One cordial in this melancholy vale	M
'Tis when a youthful loving modest pair	M
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale	M
Beneath the milk white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale	M
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X	P
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Is there in human form that bears a heart	T
A wretch a villain lost to love and truth	Y
That can with studied sly ensnaring art	T
Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth	Y
Curse on his perjur'd arts dissembling smooth	Z
Are honour virtue conscience all exil'd	T
Is there no pity no relenting ruth	Y
Points to the parents fondling o'er their child	T
Then paints the ruin'd maid and their distraction wild	T
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XI	P
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But now the supper crowns their simple board	T
The halesome parritch chief of Scotia's food	T
The soupe their only hawkie does afford	T
That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood	T
The dame brings forth in complimental mood	T
To grace the lad her weel hain'd kebbuck fell	M
An' aft he's prest an' aft he ca's it guid	T
The frugal wifie garrulous will tell	M
How 'twas a towmond auld sin' lint was i' the bell	M
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XII	P
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The cheerfu' supper done wi' serious face	P
They round the ingle form a circle wide	T
The Sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace	P
The big ha' Bible ance his father's pride	T
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside	T
His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare	M
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide	T
He wales a portion with judicious care	M
And 'Let us worship GOD ' he says with solemn air	M
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XIII	P
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They chant their artless notes in simple guise	P
They tune their hearts by far the noblest aim	U
Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise	P
Or plaintive Martyrs worthy of the name	U
Or noble Elgin beets the heaven ward flame	U
The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays	P
Compar'd with these Italian trills are tame	U
The tickl'd ear no heart felt raptures raise	P
Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise	P
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XIV	J
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The priest like Father reads the sacred page	A2
How Abram was the friend of God on high	J
Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage	A2
With Amalek's ungracious progeny	P
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie	J
Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire	M
Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry	J
Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire	M
Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre	M
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XV	J
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Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme	U
How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed	T
How HE who bore in Heaven the second name	U
Had not on earth whereon to lay his head	T
How His first followers and servants sped	T
The precepts sage they wrote to many a land	T
How he who lone in Patmos banished	T
Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand	T
And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command	T
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XVI	J
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Then kneeling down to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KING	B2
The Saint the Father and the Husband prays	P
Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing '	-
That thus they all shall meet in future days	P
There ever bask in uncreated rays	P
No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear	M
Together hymning their Creator's praise	P
In such society yet still more dear	M
While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere	M
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XVII	J
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Compar'd with this how poor Religion's pride	T
In all the pomp of method and of art	T
When men display to congregations wide	T
Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart	T
The Pow'r incens'd the pageant will desert	T
The pompous strain the sacerdotal stole	M
But haply in some cottage far apart	T
May hear well pleas'd the language of the soul	M
And in His book of life the inmates poor enrol	M
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XVIII	J
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Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way	E
The youngling cottagers retire to rest	T
Their Parent pair their secret homage pay	E
And proffer up to Heaven the warm request	T
That HE who stills the raven's clam'rous nest	T
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride	T
Would in the way His wisdom sees the best	T
For them and for their little ones provide	T
But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside	T
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XIX	P
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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs	P
That makes her lov'd at home rever'd abroad	T
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings	P
An honest man's the noblest work of GOD	T
And certes in fair virtue's heav'nly road	T
The cottage leaves the palace far behind	T
What is a lordship's pomp a cumbrous load	T
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind	T
Studied in arts of Hell in wickedness refin'd	T
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XX	P
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O Scotia my dear my native soil	M
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent	T
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil	M
Be blest with health and peace and sweet content	T
And O may heaven their simple lives prevent	T
From luxury's contagion weak and vile	M
Then howe'er crowns and coronets be rent	T
A virtuous populace may rise the while	M
And stand a wall of fire around their much lov'd Isle	M
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XXI	P
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O Thou who pour'd the patriotic tide	T
That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart	T
Who dar'd to nobly stem tyrannic pride	T
Or nobly die the second glorious part	T
The patriot's God peculiarly Thou art	T
His friend inspirer guardian and reward	T
O never never Scotia's realm desert	T
But still the patriot and the patriot bard	T
In bright succession raise her ornament and guard	T