 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...  Saturday night - Page 4by Saturday night - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...soil! For whom my wannest wish to Heaven a sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be bless'd slants, An C, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle. From... | |
 | John Knox - 1851 - 216 pages
...Sabbath-keeping land ! for " righteousness exalteth a nation, and sin is a reproach to any people." " O, Scotia ! my dear, my native soil I For whom my...Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content 1 And, 0 ! may heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...concluding stanzas of the Cotter's Saturday Night: — • " Oh, Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long...blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oil may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns... | |
 | ROBERT FERGUSON, LL.D. - 1851 - 262 pages
...truthfulness and a force wholly irresistible, that Burns exclaims— " O Scotia! my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may...of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and tweet content! And O! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and rile;... | |
 | 1852 - 1070 pages
...— PABI I. * O Scotia, my dear, my native soli ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven Is sent, Ijong may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health,...prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while. And stand a wall of flre... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 pages
...two concluding stanzas of the Cotter's Saturday Night:—• " Oh, Scotia! my dear,, my native seil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sen-t! Long...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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...following stanza. It is taken from his " Cotter's Saturday Night :" " 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 bless'd with health, and peace, and sweet content , And oh, may Heaven their simple lives prevent From... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...wickedness refined ! * Pope's Windsor Foniu O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my wannest bless'd with health and peace, and sweet content .' Aud O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From... | |
 | Sarah R. Whitehead - 1852 - 322 pages
...delighted, and Mary almost ceased to regret Glenearn. CHAPTER XIV. O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sous of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, O ! may Heaven their... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! 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 blessed with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And O ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From... | |
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