The Cotters Saturday Night
scotia! my dear, my native soil!
for whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent,
long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
be blest with health, and peace, and sweet tent!
and o! may heaven their simple lives prevent
from luxury's tagion, weak and vile!
then howe'er s and ets be rent,
a virtuous popuce may rise the while,
and stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd isle.
o thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide,
that stream'd thro' walce's undaunted heart,
who dar'd to nobly stem tyrannic pride,
or nobly die, the sed glorious part:
The Cotters Saturday Night(15/16)