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What Burns owed particularly to his father he has told us himself both in prose and verse. The exquisite and beautiful picture of the father and his family at their evening devotions is taken from life; and William Burness is the sire who 'turns o'er with patriarchal grace The big ha'-bible ance his father's pride';
To stigmatise false friends of thine Can ne'er defame thee. Compare the reading of the sacred page, when the family is gathered round the ingle, and 'the sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace the big ha'-bible' and 'wales a portion with judicious care, with the reading of Peebles frae the Water fit 'See, up he's got the word o' God, And meek and mim has viewed it. What a contrast!
Strange things. *Makes old clothes look almost as good as new. . . . . . . . "The cheerfu' supper done,, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His layart haffets* wearing thin an' 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.
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