He’ll do as she’s a mind ter!
We know she “will” or else she “won’t,”
‘Twill be the same as now;
And if she does, or if she don’t,
God bless her, anyhow!
When pain and anguish wring the brow
A ministering angel thou.—Scott, “Marmion.”
Christian Charity
“O my leddie! when the hour o’ trouble comes that comes to mind and body, and the hour o’ death comes that comes to high and low, it is no’ what we ha’ done for ourselves but what we ha’ done for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.”—Effie Deans, “The Heart of Midlothian.”