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... sing of the beauties of Tweed . 2 Where the music of woods and of streams In soothing sweet melody join , To enliven your pastoral themes , And make human numbers divine . CHORUS . Ye warblers from the vocal grove , The tender woodland ...
... sing of the beauties of Tweed . 2 Where the music of woods and of streams In soothing sweet melody join , To enliven your pastoral themes , And make human numbers divine . CHORUS . Ye warblers from the vocal grove , The tender woodland ...
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... sing ; Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray , While sounding echoes smooth the sylvan lay . ALEXIS . " Tis thine to sing the graces of the morn , The zephyr trembling o'er the rip'ning corn ; N ' Tis thine with ease to ...
... sing ; Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray , While sounding echoes smooth the sylvan lay . ALEXIS . " Tis thine to sing the graces of the morn , The zephyr trembling o'er the rip'ning corn ; N ' Tis thine with ease to ...
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... Sing then , for here we may with safety keep Our sportive lambkins on this mossy steep . DAMON . With ruddy glow the sun adorns the land , The pearly dew - drops on the bushes stand ; The lowing oxen from the folds we hear , And snowy ...
... Sing then , for here we may with safety keep Our sportive lambkins on this mossy steep . DAMON . With ruddy glow the sun adorns the land , The pearly dew - drops on the bushes stand ; The lowing oxen from the folds we hear , And snowy ...
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... sing , And hollow dens shall with the numbers ring , ALEXIS . Apollo ! lend me thy celestial lyre , The woods in concert join at thy desire : At morn , at noon , at night , I'll tune the lay , And bid fleet Echo bear the sound away ...
... sing , And hollow dens shall with the numbers ring , ALEXIS . Apollo ! lend me thy celestial lyre , The woods in concert join at thy desire : At morn , at noon , at night , I'll tune the lay , And bid fleet Echo bear the sound away ...
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... sing . FLORELLUS . Swayed by his word , the nutrient dews descend , And growing pastures to the moisture bend ; The vernal blossoms sip his falling showers ; Themeads are garnished with his opening flowers . AMYNTAS . For man , the ...
... sing . FLORELLUS . Swayed by his word , the nutrient dews descend , And growing pastures to the moisture bend ; The vernal blossoms sip his falling showers ; Themeads are garnished with his opening flowers . AMYNTAS . For man , the ...
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aften amang AMYNTAS Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blithe bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster canty cauld cauler cheer chiel CORYDON cou'd DAMON death dowie e'er Edina's Edinburgh fair Fancy fouk frae friends gales genius GEORDIE gloom glowr green groves gude hail hame hath heart ilka Invermay lads landlord loun lyre maun melody mind mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair Naiads ne'er never night numbers o'er OLIVER & CO owre plain poortith reign Robert Fergusson round scene Scotland shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller Simmer sing smiles song spring St Andrews strain streams swain sweet thee thou thro TIMANTHES tongue trow Twas unco virtue voice wame weel weet Whan Whare Whase wing wirrikow woes wonted youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 116 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 266 - For a' that life ahint can spare. The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend), Her sad confinement ill can brook In some dark chamber's dowy nook ; Tho' Mary's hand his nebb supplies, Unkend to hunger's painfu...
Seite 248 - He maunna care for being seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O' gude Braid Claith. For, gin he come wi...
Seite 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Seite 247 - Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi' scrapin wark, Wi' siller broachie in his sark, Gangs trigly, faith ! Or to the Meadow, or the Park, In gude Braid Claith.
Seite 320 - On einings cauld wi' glee we'd trudge To heat our shins in Johnny's lodge; The de'il ane thought his bum to budge Wi' siller on us : To claw het pints we'd never grudge O
Seite 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters...
Seite 198 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Seite 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o