 Behold! and look away your low despair— See the light tenants of the barren air: To them, nor stores, nor granaries belong, Nought but the woodland and the pleasing song; Yet, your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the least wing that flits along...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 1521824Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1759 - 516 pages
...your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the fky. To him they fi.ng, when Spring renews the plain, To him they cry in Winter's pinching reign ; Nor is their muiic, nor their plaint in vain : He hears the pay, and the diftrefsful call, A.id with unfparing bounty... | |
 | 1764 - 524 pages
...heavenly Father bends his eye On the lead wing that flits along the flcy. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain, To him they cry in Winter's pinching reign ; Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain: He hears the gay, and the didrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty... | |
 | James Thomson - 1760 - 326 pages
...bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the fky. To him they fmg, when Spring" renews tke plain, To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign ; Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty... | |
 | James Thomson - 1774 - 282 pages
...your kind heav'nly father bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the iky. To him they fing, when Spring renews the plain, •) To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign ; ^ > Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diltrefsful call, And with unfparing... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the fky. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain ; -\ To him they cry, in winter's pinching reign ; £ Nor is their mufic,' nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 628 pages
...heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing, that ffits along the fky. To him they fing, when fpring renews the plain, "\ To him they cry in winter's pinching reign ; > Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing... | |
 | John Bell - 1787 - 510 pages
...your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the Icaft wing that flits along the Iky. To him they ling when Spring renews the plain, ) To him they cry in Winter's pinching reign, S is their mufic nor thejr pJaint in vaio: J POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 2g|T He hears the gay and... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the fky. To him they fmg, when Spring renews the plain, } To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign ; f Nor is their mufic nor their plaint in vain : J He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...Father bends his eye On the leaft wing that flits along the iky. To him they fing when fpring re news ye debtors ! when ye walk beware, J3c circumfpcft : oft with infid mufic nor their plaint in vain : He bean the gay and the diftrefsful call, Afld, with unfparing bounty,... | |
 | James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 pages
...your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the leaft wing, that flits along the fky. To him they fing, when Spring renews the plain, To him they cry, in Winter's pinching reign ; Nor is their mufic, nor their plaint in vain : He hears the gay, and the diftrefsful call, And with unfparing bounty... | |
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