...with the poet, that such brethren are among the best of their country's sons, that " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad ;" and you desire to join in the Invocation that bursts from his pious and patriotic heart : " 0 Scotia...

...preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered 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...

...UPSTANDING Such Scottish types as this village blacksmith inspired Burns to philosophize: "Princes ahd lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." £-0 Photograph by W. R«d "I AM, INDEED, SIR, A SURGEON TO OLD SHOES" " Long may the hardy sons...

...also reared a monument to his memory, on which they inscribed the lines — " Princes and lords'are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." CA DAVIS. an& f entlimlg* THE beloved Apostle John was in four remarkable ways honoured above...

...preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings;...noblest work of God:" And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load,...

...77—80) 20 From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered M M ,OG L M God!" (1. 163-166) 21 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,...

...much in Robert Burns's "The Cottar's Saturday Night" that speaks to this argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her...breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's this came to be a democracy...

...unsentimental portrait of agricultural family life, written in Scots and English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her...are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:...

...cotter's family together as national subjects. Burns suggests that it is "From scenes like these [that] old SCOTIA'S grandeur springs / That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad" (ll. 163-64). Other elements in the poem suggest a different kind of national imagining than the singing...