 The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his...  Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ... - Page 16by Basil Montagu - 1839 - 350 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 456 lehte
...hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 lehte
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcwarJ bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...tree ; Th* expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blinkin bonilic, His clean... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 lehte
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichtering noise an' glee.' His wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily, His... | |
 | 1854 - 606 lehte
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnilie, His... | |
 | 1854 - 608 lehte
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnilie, His... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 lehte
...hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacker thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichter in noise an glee; His wee bit ingle blinkin bonily, His... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 lehte
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. His wee bit... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 lehte
...Wife and children are a healthy discipline; but the unmarried are morose and selfish. — Lord Bacon. At length his lonely cot appears in view Beneath the shelter of an aged tree. The expectant " wee things" toddling, stagger through To meet their dad, with fluttering noise and... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 lehte
...labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flictherin noise an' glee.... | |
 | 1864 - 860 lehte
...even humbler than that described by Burns in his " Cottar's Saturday Night " : — " At length bis lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree." On tho loft is the wooden " box-bed," as it is called, which is almost universal in Scotland in the... | |
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