...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 one's provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's...

...that... There is much in Robert Burns's "The Cottar's Saturday Night" that speaks to this argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...abroad, Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen,...

...intimate, affectionate, unsentimental portrait of agricultural family life, written in Scots and English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...abroad: Princes and lords 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...

...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...