 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 520 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still as I view each well-known scene,...friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...flood, 20 Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy nigged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think...is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft,2 Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...it ceases to beat, With the smoke of its ashes to poison the gale — ! That knits me to thy ragged ¡is, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what has been, Seems as to me of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love... | |
 | E A. B - 1881 - 262 pages
...fevered, God-leaving, and empty thing ! Not so these natural joys — these childhood's delights — ' Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, iSeems, as to me, of all bereft, Sole friend, thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1882 - 568 pages
...flowed fresh and warm from Robert Burns' s heart, should be strictly adhered to in all future editions. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what...better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none shall guide my feeble way; Still feel the bree/e down Ettrick... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand? Still, as I view each well-known scene,...and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, [left; Sole friends thy woods and streams were And thus I love them better still. Even in extremity... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1882 - 780 pages
...sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy nigged strand ! song, Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, ot all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...the flood. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits ine to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath Seems, as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them... | |
 | Geography reading books - 1882 - 276 pages
...who is speaking, but an old harper, ' scorned and poor ; ' and the sorrowful tone is all a fancy : \Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what has been, Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I... | |
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Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view... 
