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Quotation from The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns

“The priest-like father reads the sacred page”

Robert Burns (spoken by The narrator)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 14 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

The opening of the stanza listing the Old Testament stories the father reads.

Citation: "The priest-like father reads the sacred page" — Robert Burns, The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 14 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id the-cotters-saturday-night-q2)

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