 O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And...  Poems - Page 46by John W. Curtis - 1846 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...led him to feel with her own bard, that so long as they continue free from ' luxury's contagion,' ' A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle.' "Among his delightful rambles in the north of England, in the month of August, 1824,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. XXI. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro' Wallace's undaunted... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1807 - 492 pages
...toil, Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet cmtent I " And, O ! may Heav'n their simple live* prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then,...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd ukl" 3. Laws are to have their scope upon any on« found in the land where they are enacted,... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Maxims - 1807 - 248 pages
...tent I i " And, O ! may Heav'n their simpte lives prevint From tuxury's contagion, weak and vile 1 Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their rBuch-lov'd hie!" 3. Laws are to have their scope upon any one found in the land where they are enacted,... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1807 - 246 pages
...luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous fofuface may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lor'd ulel" 3. Laws are to have their scope upon any on« found in the land where they are enacted,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart;... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...sweet content ! And, O ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile 1 Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undannted heart... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...hardy sons of rustic toil, Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, O ! may Heav'n, their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion,...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. XXI. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro' Wallace's undaunted... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...sweet content ! And, Oh I may Heav'n their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vilel Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous...rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle! O Thou ! who pour'd'the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart... | |
 | Missions - 1843 - 752 pages
..."luxury's contagion, weak and vile," — with the exultation — " Then, howc'er crowns and coronett be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle." Those who wear crowns and coronets should know that their best security, their only... | |
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