...virtue's hcav'nly roarl, The cottage leaves the palace far hehind ; What is a lordling's pomp ! a cumhrous load Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! XX. О Scotia ! my dear, my native soil For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy...

...of all when reading the Cottar's Saturday Night: and we entirely go along with Burns when he says, " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind;" but there, we think, he ought to have stopped, or illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What...

...abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man 's the noblest work of God " ; And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! 102 DISDAIN RETURNED. O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent...

...abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God :" And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage...human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refln'd ! O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent ! Long may...

...abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God :" And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. * * « * O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may...

...breath of kings, " An honest man '9 the noblest work of God : " And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy...

...breath of kings, ' An honest man 's the noblest work of God:1* And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What...pomp'! a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! О Scotia! my dear, my native soil ! For...

...Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God:' And, coirs, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind." XL. THE UNSTABLE WORKING-MAN. " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome:...

...An honest man's the noblest work of God :' And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cotta9e leaves the palace far behind : What is a lordling's...pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd 1 O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For...

...one. The peasant who should read this description must feel the truth of what the poet expressed. " And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind." Thus did Burns by his poetry fill the peasant's heart with content, and engage all in vigorous efforts...