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Quotation from The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns

“May hear, well-pleas’d, the language of the soul”

Robert Burns (spoken by The narrator)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 17 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

God may desert showy religious pageantry but hear the sincere prayers of a poor cottage.

Citation: "May hear, well-pleas’d, the language of the soul" — Robert Burns, The Cotter’s Saturday Night, Stanza 17 (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id the-cotters-saturday-night-q3)

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