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The Cotters Saturday Nigh (第3/5页)
ke the lave. o happy love! where love like this is found: o heart-felt raptures! bliss beyond pare! i've paced much this weary, mortal round, and sage experience bids me this declare,— “if heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare— one cordial in this melancholy vale, 'tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair in other'sarms, breathe out the teale, beh the milk-white thorn that sts the evening gale.” is there, in human form, that bears a heart, a wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! that , with studied, sly, ensnaring art, betray sweet jenny's unsuspeg youth? curse on his perjur'd arts! dissembling smooth! are honour, virtue, sce, all exil'd? is there no pity, ing ruth, points to the parents fondling o'er their child? then paints the ruin'd maid, and their distra wild? but now the supper s their simple board, the halesome parritch, chief of scotia's food; the sowp their only hawkie does afford, that, 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood: the dame brings forth, in plimental mood, to grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell; and aft he's prest, and aft he ca's it guid: the frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell how t'was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. the cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, they, round the ingle, form a circle wide; the sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, the big ha'bible, ance his father's pride: his bo rev'rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; those strains that once did sweet in zion glide, he wales a portion with judicious care; and “let us worship god!” he says with solemn air. they t their artless notes in simple guise, they tuheir hearts, by far the ai