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... fair and honest criticism of the press . Had this work appeared two years ago , the writer would in its preparation have been assisted by his esteemed and intimate friend James Smith , whose lamented death took place last year . He has ...
... fair and honest criticism of the press . Had this work appeared two years ago , the writer would in its preparation have been assisted by his esteemed and intimate friend James Smith , whose lamented death took place last year . He has ...
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... fair , Wi ' petals openin ' to the view Mair exquisite an ' rare ; But ask me where the memories O ' happiest moments come ? Ah , ' tis on yonder sunny braes Amang the yellow broom . A hundred bards ha'e sung its praise , In ages past ...
... fair , Wi ' petals openin ' to the view Mair exquisite an ' rare ; But ask me where the memories O ' happiest moments come ? Ah , ' tis on yonder sunny braes Amang the yellow broom . A hundred bards ha'e sung its praise , In ages past ...
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... fair , In thy sweet cradle bed slumbering there ; Holy and calm , yea , unclouded thy rest , As the love borne for thee in a fond mother's breast . Beautiful , innocent , spotless , sin - free , Are there no angels pure watching o'er ...
... fair , In thy sweet cradle bed slumbering there ; Holy and calm , yea , unclouded thy rest , As the love borne for thee in a fond mother's breast . Beautiful , innocent , spotless , sin - free , Are there no angels pure watching o'er ...
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... fair name Has ought to fear ; Nay , it maun be through comin ' time Held doubly dear . THE AULD LINT MILL . * * From the author's first volume , by special request of a few friends . AIR- " Kelvin Grove . " LET me linger on the brae by ...
... fair name Has ought to fear ; Nay , it maun be through comin ' time Held doubly dear . THE AULD LINT MILL . * * From the author's first volume , by special request of a few friends . AIR- " Kelvin Grove . " LET me linger on the brae by ...
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... fair and flowery thorn Holy angels hover , Round the spot where many mourn Annie gone for ever . Closed now those eyes of blue , Once that beamed so brightly ; Still'd for aye those fairy feet , Once that tripped so lightly . Shrouded ...
... fair and flowery thorn Holy angels hover , Round the spot where many mourn Annie gone for ever . Closed now those eyes of blue , Once that beamed so brightly ; Still'd for aye those fairy feet , Once that tripped so lightly . Shrouded ...
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ain gean tree amang Auld Lint Mill Auld Mill Barn Auld Scotland's Autumn bairn bard beautiful Biggar bonnie bosom bright brow Carlops church churchyard cottage dark dear death Doctor Dolphinton Donald Cargill doon Dunsyre e'er fair flowers frae glen grave hame hath hearts hills humble inscription interesting Jephtha's daughter Kilbucho Laird land langsyne life's Linton lonely Lyne Water lyre mair manse maun memory minister mong mony moorland mountain Muirkirk ne'er neath Newhall o'er oor ain gean owre parish peaceful Peeblesshire Prince Charlie quaint Ravendean Burn replied respect unto richt Robbie Burns Robert Burns round sang scenes Scotland Scottish seek sere song spot stone Strathspeys stream sweet Tammas terrible loon thee thou thro Verses Wake the pibroch wandered weel ween West Linton Willie young
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Page 20 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity [The Day of the Lord] : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Page 151 - His is that language of the heart, In which the answering heart would speak, Thought, word, that bids the warm tear start, Or the smile light the cheek ; And his that music, to whose tone The common pulse of man keeps time, In cot or castle's mirth or moan, In cold or sunny clime.
Page 122 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 130 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 20 - Come, my people, Enter thou into thy chambers, And shut thy doors about thee : Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, 15 Until the indignation be overpast.
Page 165 - Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined— The Delphian ' vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind. Sages, with wisdom's garland wreathed, Crowned kings, and mitred priests of power, And warriors with their bright swords sheathed, The mightiest of the hour...
Page 132 - October 24, 1684; for their adherence to the word of God, and Scotland's covenanted work of reformation.
Page 165 - All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, And gather feelings not of earth His fields and streams among.
Page 165 - And lowlier names, whose humble home Is lit by Fortune's dimmer star, Are there; o'er wave and mountain come, From countries near and far, Pilgrims whose wandering feet have pressed The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West — My own green forest-land...
Page 137 - This lovely bud, so young and fair, Called hence by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower In Paradise would bloom.