ENTERED IN STATIONERS HALL.

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,
Their homely joys and deftiny obfcure;
Nor Grandeur bear, with a difdainful fmile,
The fort but fimple annals of the Poor.

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,

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