"The little smiling cottage, when at eve
He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
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To cheer his hunger after labour hard."
Fleece, Book I. 120.
Burns has a picture equal to any of these:
"At length his lonely cot appears in view
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree:
Th' expectant wee things, todlin', stacher through