CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. BY ROBERT BURN S. IN TWO VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. VOL, II. Edinburgh: PRINTED BY ADAM NEILL AND CO. FOR T. CADELL jun. AND W. DAVIES, LONDON ; AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH. CHIEFLY SCOTTISH. THE COTTER's SATURDAY NIGHT. INSCRIBED TO R. A****, ESQ. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, GRAY. With honeft pride, I scorn each selfish end, My deareft meed, a friend's efteem and praise : To you I fing, in fimple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's fequefter'd fcene; The native feelings ftrong, the guileless ways; What A**** in a Cottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween! II. November chill blaws loud wi' angry fugh; The fhort'ning winter-day is near a close The miry beafts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repofe : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects |