 Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise...  Songs of Freedom - Page 5by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James White - 1859 - 118 pages
...wickedness refin'd! 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...contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets he rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle.... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...wickedness refin'd I 15 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, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent 20 From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er... | |
 | Genevieve Forbes Herrick, John Origen Herrick - 1925 - 434 pages
...confidence in you : "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, oh, may Heav'n their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile. Then, howe'er crowns... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...wickedness refined ! 0 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 ! 386 POEMS OF RELIGION. And, 0, may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak... | |
 | 1925 - 262 pages
...AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND "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!" — Cotter's Saturday Night. Ayrshire is situated on the south-west coast of Scotland. It is 1499 square... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1926 - 734 pages
...wickedness refin'd 1 О 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 I And 0 I may Heaven their simple Jives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...wickedness refin'd ! О Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! is an earthquake at the foundations of the House. Better that it should not have consent ! 175 And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then,... | |
 | Cameron Morrison - North Carolina - 1927 - 430 pages
...wickedness refined! 0 Scotial 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, O! may Heav'n their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...wickedness refined! O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! oyalty M worry * bcconie dejected 17 act like one half asleep " I neglect to Bleep >• be 175 And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - English language - 1912 - 462 pages
...of the rimes : — 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 oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns... | |
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