...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there I ween! November...winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating f rae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cottar frae his labor...

...scene, The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier • there, I ween!...angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close; ll The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The...

...loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is nea.1 u close ; The miry beasts retreating frae th« pleugh: The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes. This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattacks, ami his hoes,...

...unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the...craws to their repose: The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,...

...those whose lives are depicted in his poem: November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; [whistling windj The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; [dirty] [plough] The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn COTTER frae his labor...