GRATITUDE

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat and we can eat
And sae the Lord be thanket. —Burns TRANSLATION Sunt quibus est panis
nec amor tamen ullus edendi: Sunt quibus hic amor est
deest tamen ipse cibus. Panis at est nobis
et amor quoque panis edendi Pro quibus est Domino
gratia habenda Deo. —The Lawrence Latinist

[A HYMN TO THE LARES]

It was, and still my care is,
To worship ye, the Lares,
With crowns of greenest parsley,
And garlick chives not scarcely;
For favors here to warme me,
And not by fire to harme me;
For gladding so my hearth here,
With inoffensive mirth here;
That while the wassaile bowle here
With North-down ale doth troule here,
No sillable doth fall here,
To marre the mirth at all here.
For which, O chimney-keepers!
(I dare not call ye sweepers)
So long as I am able
To keep a country-table
Great be my fare, or small cheere,
I'll eat and drink up all here. —Robert Herrick