The Cotters Saturday Night(2/6)
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comes hame, perhaps to shew a braw new gown,
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 forward points 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' command,
the younkers a' are warned to obey;
and mind their labours wi' an eydent hand,
and ne'er, tho' 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 in temptation's path ye gang astray,
implore his counsel and assisting might:
they never sought in vain that sought the lord aright.”
but hark! a rap comes 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 convoy her hame.
the wily mother sees the conscious flame
sparkle in jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek;
with heart-struck anxious care, enquires his name,
while jenny hafflins is afraid to speak;
weel-pleased the mother hears, it's nae wild, worthless rake.
wi' kindly welcome, jenny brings him ben;
a strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye;
blythe jenny sees the 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 can weel behave;
the mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy
comes hame, perhaps to shew a braw new gown,
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 forward points 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' command,
the younkers a' are warned to obey;
and mind their labours wi' an eydent hand,
and ne'er, tho' 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 in temptation's path ye gang astray,
implore his counsel and assisting might:
they never sought in vain that sought the lord aright.”
but hark! a rap comes 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 convoy her hame.
the wily mother sees the conscious flame
sparkle in jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek;
with heart-struck anxious care, enquires his name,
while jenny hafflins is afraid to speak;
weel-pleased the mother hears, it's nae wild, worthless rake.
wi' kindly welcome, jenny brings him ben;
a strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye;
blythe jenny sees the 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 can weel behave;
the mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy
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