- This poem relates how the Cotter and his family take time to relax on a Saturday evening after their week's labour, knowing that Sunday is a day of rest.
- The Cotter's Saturday Night is a poem by Robert Burns that was first published in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. Composition.
- Poem The Cotters Saturday Night by Robert Burns : My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend!
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- The toil-worn Cotter frae his labor goes—. This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes
- ...The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,-- This night his weekly moil is at...
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- ...winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes...
- ...winter day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The black’ning trains o’ craws to their repose; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes...
- 14 The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes
- 15 This night his weekly moil is at an end
- 16 Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes