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o help her parents dear, if they hardship be
with joy unfeign&039;d, brothers and sisters et,
and each for other&039;s weelfare kdly speirs:
the cial hours, swift-g&039;d, unnotic&039;d fleet:
each tells the uns that he sees or hears
the parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;
anticipation forward pots the view;
the other, wi&039; her needle and her shears,
gars auld ces look aaist as weel&039;s the new;
the father ixes a&039; wi&039; adonition due
their aster&039;s and their istress&039; and,
the younkers a&039; are warned to obey;
and d their bours wi&039; an eydent hand,
and ne&039;er, tho&039; out o&039; sight, to jauk or py;
“and o! be sure to fear the lord alway,
and d your duty, duly, orn and night;
lest teptation&039;s path ye gang astray,
iplore his unsel and assistg ight:
they never ught va that ught the lord aright”
but hark! a rap es ntly to the door;
jenny, wha kens the ang o&039; the sa,
tells how a neibor d ca o&039;er the oor,
to do errands, and nvoy her ha
the wily other sees the nscio f
sparkle jenny&039;s e&039;e, and fsh her cheek;
with heart-struck anxio care, enires his na,
while jenny haffls is afraid to speak;
weel-pleased the other hears, it&039;s nae wild, worthless rake
wi&039; kdly wele, jenny brgs hi ben;
a strapp youth, he takes the other&039;s eye;
blythe jenny sees the visit&039;s no ill ta&039;en;
the father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye
the youngster&039;s artless heart o&039;erflows wi&039; joy,
but bte an&039; ithfu&039;, scarce can weel behave;
the other, wi&039; a woan&039;s wiles, can spy
what akes the youth sae bashfu&039; and sae grave,
weel-pleas&039;d to thk her bairn&039;s respected like the ve
o happy love! where love like this is found:
o heart-fe
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