Belyve the elder bairns come drappin in, Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be. An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers; The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Garsd auld claese look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi' admonition due. Their masters' and their mistresses' command, An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night! Implore his counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, a Mindful. b Asks. C News. d Makes. e Clothes. f Diligent. His lyart haffets wearin thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God!' he says, with solemn air. * Then, kneeling down, to heaven's eternal King No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. * Then homeward all take off their several way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. BURNS. A MOTHER'S DEATH. THEN died lamented, in the strength of life, Call'd not away, when time had loosed each hold • Grey. b Temples. c Chooses. But when to all that knit us to our kind, Slowly they bore, with solemn step, the dead:-- So swift the ill, and of so fierce a kind, Friends with the husband came, their griefs to blend; While the meek father, listening to their tones, Curious and sad, upon the fresh-dug hill, bore, with solemn step. the dead :loud, and bitter tears were shed, a crowd drew near the place, alarm in every face: and of so fierce a kind, jity, mingled in each mind; he husband came, their griefs to blend: Frankford was to all a friend. y they held above the bier, ef, but cries expressed his fear: age and sex revealed its pain, er, now a lower strain; ek father, listening to their tones, all cadence of the grief by groans. er strove her pangs to hide, words to younger minds applied patient," oft she strove to say; and weeping turned away. upon the fresh-dug hill. stood melancholy, still; wandering to-and-fro, took the tone of woe. ice by, vas high: › dead. ht, K |