 Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be 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 and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 186edited by - 1722Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! XX. О 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, О ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...Cotter's Saturday Night: — • " Oh, Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic...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... | |
 | John Knox - Great Britain - 1851 - 216 pages
...sin is a reproach to any people." " O, Scotia ! my dear, my native soil I For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic...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 FERGUSON, LL.D. - 1851 - 262 pages
...irresistible, that Burns exclaims— " 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 tweet content! And O! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and rile;... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1852 - 336 pages
...the Cotter's Saturday Night:—• " Oh, Scotia! my dear,, my native seil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sen-t! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic...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... | |
 | English literature - 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, and peace, and sweet content! And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns... | |
 | Sarah R. Whitehead - 1852 - 322 pages
...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 simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion — weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...wickedness refined ! * Pope's Windsor Foniu O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my wannest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be bless'd with health and peace, and sweet content .' Aud O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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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