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  • ...An' mind their labours wi' an eydent hand, An' ne'er tho' out o' sight, to jauk or play: “An' O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night!
  • It was in one of these walks that I first had the pleasure of hearing the author repeat The Cotter's Saturday Night.
  • ...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...
  • The Cotter's Saturday Night. Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq. "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure
  • ...An' mind their labours wi' an eydent hand, An' ne'er tho' out o' sight, to jauk or play: "An' O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night!
    • 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
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  • The Cotter’s Saturday Night is one of a pair of paintings (the other being Grace Before Meat), inspired by one of Robert Burns’s most patriotic poems...
  • Cotter's Saturday Night, The. Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with...