...friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end : My clearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise. To you I sing,...in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would...

...BURNS'S " COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT." Mr loved, my honored, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard bis 1 1`h 1 yon I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene, The native feelings...

...Xithside.1 THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. My loved, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry...

...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,...

...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,...

...friend Aiken, in the dedicatory stanza of the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,...

...COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. Inscribed to Robert Jlikcn, Etq. My loved, my honor'd, much respected friend t No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride...Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry...

...companion to the fireside picture by Goldsmith of the Vicar of Wakefield. My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aikin in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November...

...SATURDAY NIGHT. — Burn*. INSCRIBED TO ROBERT AIKSN, KSQ. MY loved, my honored, much respected friend I No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride...in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would...

...with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.— Gray. MY loved, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays...ways ; "What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ;* The...