 | 1823 - 450 pages
...gold, A mailin plenisli'd fairly ; And come, my faithful soldier lad Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! 8 For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor ; But glory is the soldier's prize, The soldier's wealth is honour ; The brave poor soldier ne'er despise, Nor count him... | |
 | Felix M'Donogh - Country life in literature - 1822 - 276 pages
...language of nature, and in that of the heart : " The brave, poor soldier ne'er disdain, " Nor treat him as a stranger,— " Remember he's his country's stay " In day and hour of danger." THE EMBARKATION. But to return to the embarkation. This is a more serious act in the drama of a soldier's... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...Quo' she, my grandsire left me gowd, A mailen plenish'd fairly ; And come, my faithful sodger lad, Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant...he's his country's stay In day and hour of danger. " The Poor and Honest Sodger" laid hold at once on the public feeling, and it was every where sung... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...Quo' she, my grandsire left me gowd, A mailen plenish'd fairly ; And come, my faithful sodger lad, Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant...he's his country's stay In day and hour of danger. " The Poor and Honest Sodger" laid hold at once on the public feeling, and it was every where sung... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...she, my grandsire left me gowd, A mailen plenish'd fairly; And come, my faithful sodger lad, Thou 'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant ploughs...ne'er despise, Nor count him as a stranger ; Remember he 's his country's stay In day and hour of danger. XCIV. FAIR JENNY. TUNE — Sam ye my Father. WHERE... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...parted. Quo' she, my grandsire left me gowd, A mailen plenish'd fairly; And come, my faithful sodger lad, Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant...the sodger's prize; The sodger's wealth is honour : Remember he's his country's stay In day and hour of danger. TUNE—The last time I came o'er the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...Quo' she, my grandsirc left me gowd, A mailen plenisii'd fairly ; And come, my fuithfnl sodgerlail, Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant...glory is the sodger's prize ; The sodger's wealth is honor : , The brave poor eodger ne'er despise, Nor count him as a stranger, Remember he's hia country... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 408 pages
...in gear, we're rich in love, And mair we'se ne'er be parted. 295 Then come, my foithfn' sodger lad, Thou'rt welcome to it dearly. For gold the merchant...Remember he's his country's stay, In day and hour o' danger.* THE WEE, WEE GERMAN LAIBDIE. WHA the deil hae we gotten for a king, But a wee, wee German... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...spite of " (he devil, and the world, and the flesh," 1 believe I should have been a wise man. Burnt. For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer...the sodger's prize ; The sodger's wealth is honour. Id. FARM, FARIN, or FEBM, (Firma,) in law, signifies a country messuage or district ; containing house... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...1 believe I should have been a wise man. Uurtu. For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The fanner ploughs the manor ; But glory is the sodger's prize ; The sodger's wealth is honour. Id. FARM, FARIK, or FEUM, (Firma,) in law, signifies a country messuage or district ; containing house... | |
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Thou'rt welcome to it dearly ! For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor ; But glory is the sodger's prize ; The sodger's wealth is... 
