THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND. Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown'd, Lie slaughter'd on their native ground. Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk... The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 226by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renowned, Lie slaughtered and the spoutless tea-pot there ; Sud witnesses how...close-pent man regrets The country, with what ardour he con lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar Jlis all become the prey of war ; Rethinks... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renowned, Lie slaughtered $ lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner ROCS afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...health where thry t sought it, but lived to return, to relapso, and to die. Thy hospitable roofs BO more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. There is something melancholy ill the similarity of their stories toward»... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 292 pages
...Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valor long renowned, Lie slaughtered on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more...the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become the prey of war; Bethinks... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish' d peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown' d, Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable...more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins see them lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown' d, Lie slaughter'd on their native grouni; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins see them lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war... | |
| A. D. Fillan - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1849 - 316 pages
...! mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown'd, Lie slaughtered on their native ground : Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to thy door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty ! The wretched owner sees afar His... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valour long renowned, Lie slaughtered on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more...the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks... | |
| Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 pages
...best, And ane I darena name. THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND. (After the defeat at Culloden.) TOBIAS SMOLLETT. MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn, Thy banish'd peace,...the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Schottland. Sie linden sich in seinen Miscellaneous Works. London 1796, 6 Bde in 8. The Tears of Scotland. Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace...the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks... | |
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