Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . KEN, ESQ. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ;Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile. The short and simple annals of the poor.—Gray. Y loved, my honoured, mucli respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays;With honest pride, I scorn each sellish end : My dearest meed, a friends esteem and you I sing-, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in lifes sequestered scene;The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; V^Tiat Aiken in a cottage would have been ;Ah! though his
Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . KEN, ESQ. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ;Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile. The short and simple annals of the poor.—Gray. Y loved, my honoured, mucli respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays;With honest pride, I scorn each sellish end : My dearest meed, a friends esteem and you I sing-, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in lifes sequestered scene;The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; V^Tiat Aiken in a cottage would have been ;Ah! though his worth unknown, far happier there,T ween ! November chill blaws loud wi angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ;The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh : The blackening trains o craws to their repose:The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end,Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,And weary, oer the moor his course does hameward II. i. POEMS OF THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an ag-ed tree;The expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher throfugh To meet their dad, wi flichterin noise and wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearthstane, his thrifty wifies smile,The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a his weary kiaugh and care makes him quite forget his labour and his toil. Belyve, the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun:Some ca the pleug-h, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neibor town:Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown. In youthfu bloom, love sparkling in her ee,Comes hame perhaps to show a braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny fee,To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be. With joy unfeigned, brothers and sisters meet, And each for others weelfare kindly spiers:The social hours, swift-winged, unnotic
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