 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1801 - 110 pages
...Tune—Soldier s Joy, I. • 1 am a fon of Mars who have been in many wars, And fhow my cuts and fcars wherever I come; This here was for a wench, and that...other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the found of the drum. II. Lai de daudle, &c. My prenticefhip I paft where my leader breath'd his laft,... | |
 | Miscellanea Perthensis - 1801 - 242 pages
...been in many wars, And fhow my cuts and fears wherever I come ; Thi * The old Scotch name for the Bat. This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the found of the drum. Lai de daudle, &c. II. My prenticefhip I paft where my leader breath'd his laft,... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 286 pages
...ditty up — AIR. Tune— SOLDIER'I JOY. I. I am a son of Mars, who have been in many wars, And shew my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was...When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum. Lal de daudle, fyc. II. My prenticeship I past where my leader breath'd his last, When the bloody die... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...cadger's whip, Then staggering and swaggering He roar'd this ditty up — AIR — SOLDIBR'S I. I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my...French at the sound of the ' drum. Lai de daudle, &c. II. II. My prenticeship I past where my leader breath'd his last, When the bloody die was cast on the... | |
 | 1812 - 702 pages
...fpecimen of the poem. I. " I am a fon of Mars, who have been in many wars, And (hew my cuts and fears wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, Vfhto welcoming the French at the found of the dram. Lai de deudlc, ¿-с. II. " My prenticemip I paft... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...swaggering He roar'd this ditty up— Tune— Soldier's Joy. I am a son of Mars, who have been in many wan, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This...welcoming the French, at the sound of the drum. Lai de dandle, &c. My prenticeship I past where my leader breath'dbis last, When the bloody die was cast on... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pages
...Then staggering and swaggering He roar'd this ditty up — AIR, Tune — " SOLDIER'S Joy." I. I am a son of Mars, who have been in many wars, And show...was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoraingthe French atthesouadof the drum. Lai de daudlc, &c. II. My 'prenticeship I past where my... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 354 pages
...in the wizen'd hide o' her." CHAPTER VIII. * I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And shew my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was...When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum.' BURNS. " DON'T be too much cast down," said Serjeant Bothwell to his prisoner as they journeyed on... | |
 | Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1817 - 354 pages
...in the wizen'd hide o' her." CHAPTER VIII. I am a son of Mars who have been in many wftrs, A ml shew my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other iu a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum. BURNS. " DON'T be too much cast down,"... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...legitimate progeny of some of these lines. 1. " I am a son of Mars, who have been in many wars, And shew my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was...When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum. My prenticeship I passed where my leader breathed his last, When the bloody die was cast on the heights... | |
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I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum. Lai de daudle, etc. 
