 | Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 sider
...hath said, This is my own, my native land !" — or who cannot echo with truth his apostrophe — " ' Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand T " Elkton smiled scornfully, as he entered into a whispering conversation with Miss Moleskin ; but... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 sider
...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 1 StiH, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 sider
...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...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let... | |
 | N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 sider
...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...friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 sider
...poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of ray sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial...streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Kven in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 sider
...nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood ; y, and sometimes in couplets. The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast my wint'ry sky ; ! — \Y. SCOTT. 3. How shall I speak of the old man, the bequeather of the fatal legacy to St. Leon,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sider
...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 ! SIR WALTER SCOTT. VI. BRUCE TO HIS ARMY. IN the year 1314 the weak and worthless Edward II. invaded... | |
 | 1851 - 770 sider
...every true bora MAN, whoever or wherever he may be, will beat responsive and in unison with her own ! " Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...filial band, > That knits me to thy rugged strand ! , » * • * * And thus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill !" ART. YII.-TUBKEY AND... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sider
...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the nlial'band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view...each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what bath been, Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I... | |
 | John Gibson (of Kilmarnock.) - 1851 - 192 sider
...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 ? " Some years ago, opposite the custom-house, on the quay of Greenock, (yclept " the Queen of Clyde,")... | |
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O 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... 
