With joy unfeign'd, brothers and sisters meet,
And each for other's weelfare kindly spiers,
The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet;
Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears.
The Parents partial eye their hopeful years;
Anticipation forward points the view;
The Mother wi' her needle and the sheers,
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's new;
The Father mixes a' wi admonition due.
John Faed painted a number of scenes from Robert Burns' poems, many of which were reproduced as prints.
See 'Related Items' below to view two other illustrations of verses from "Cotter's Saturday Night".