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The Cotters Saturday Nigh (第2/5页)
me, perhaps to shew a bran,
or deposite her sair-won penny-fee,
to help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.
with joy unfeign'd, brothers and sisters meet,
and each for other's weelfare kindly speirs:
the social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet:
each tells the uncos that he sees or hears.
the parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;
anticipation foroints the view;
the mother, wi' her needle and her shears,
gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new;
the father mixes a' wi' admonition due.
their master's and their mistress' and,
the younkers a' are waro obey;
and mind their labours wi' an eydent hand,
and ho' out o' sight, to jauk or play;
“and o! be sure to fear the lord alway,
and mind your duty, duly, morn and night;
lest iation's path ye gang astray,
implore his sel and assisting might:
they never sought in vain that sought the lord aright.”
but hark! a rap es gently to the door;
jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same,
tells how a neibor lad came o'er the moor,
to do some errands, and voy her hame.
the wily mother sees the scious flame
sparkle in jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek;
with heart-struxious care, enquires his name,
while jenny hafflins is afraid to speak;
weel-pleased the mother hears, it's nae wild, worthless rake.
wi' kindly wele, jenny brings him ben;
a strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye;
blythe jenhe visit's no ill ta'en;
the father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye.
the youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy,
but blate an' laithfu', scarce weel behave;
the mother, wi' a woman's wiles, spy
what makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave,
weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected li
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