The Cottar's Saturday Night, Verse 9

Category

Library Item

Item no

24765

Title

The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 9

Description

A young couple sit together in a secluded woodland scene beneath trees and beside the still waters of a stream. The man holds the womans hand in his and gazes up into her face. She wears a long dress and a bonnet and has bare feet.

Artist / maker

Faed, John

Date

1853

Size

18.2 x 26.0 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

A cottar, or cotter, is an old scots word meaning a married farm labourer who lives in a cottage provided by his employer. This image illustrates verse 9 from Robert Burns' The Cotter's Saturday Night:
O happy love! where love like this is found!
O heart-felt raptures! bliss beyond compare!
I've paced much this weary mortal round,
And sage experience bids me this declare -
"If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'Tis when a youthful, loving modest pair,
In others arms breathe out the tender tale,
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale."

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Landscape > Land > Woods and forests

Landscape > Water > Rivers and streams

People > Adults > Men

People > Adults > Women

Places > United Kingdom > Scotland

Plants > Trees > Trees

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