CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. BY ROBERT BURNS. IN TWO VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL jun. AND W. DAVIES, LONDON; AND WILLIAM CREECH, EDINBURGH, MDCCXCVIII. 280. 79 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, I. GRAY. With honeft pride, I fcorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise : To you I fing, in fimple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's fequefter'd scene; The native feelings ftrong, the guileless ways; What A**** in a Cottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween! II. November chill blaws loud wi' angry fugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a clofe; The miry beafts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repofe : The toil worn Cotter frae his labour goes,' This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects |