The Cotters Saturday Night
a woman's wiles, spy
what makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave,
weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the ve.
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 decre,—
“if heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare—
one cordial in this mencholy 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,
The Cotters Saturday Night(7/16)