The Cotters Saturday Night
when men dispy to gregations wide
devotion's evrace, except the heart!
the power, ins'd, the pageant will desert,
the pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole;
but haply, in some cottage far apart,
may hear, well-pleas'd, the nguage of the soul;
and in his book of life the inmates poor enroll.
then homeward all take off their sev'ral way;
the youngling cottagers retire to rest:
the parent-pair their secret homage pay,
and proffer up to heaven the warm request,
that he who stills the raven's cm'rous ,
and decks the lily fair in flow'ry
The Cotters Saturday Night(13/16)