The Cotters Saturday Night
sparkling in her e'e—
es hame, perhaps to shew a bran,
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 foroints the view;
the mother, wi' her needle and her shears,
gars auld ces look amaist as weel's the new;
the father mixes a' wi' admonition du
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