“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."”

—  Robert Burns , The Cotter's Saturday Night

Stanza 19
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)

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