 FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties — Our race of existence is run ! Thou grim king of terrors, thou life's gloomy foe! Go frighten the coward...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2701809Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop - Authors - 1898 - 488 pages
...of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following : SONG OF DEATH2 AIR — Oran an Aoig Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the broad-setting sun ! Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear, tender ties ! Our race of existence is... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 340 pages
...beginning — Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting son, is to us less pleasing. There are specimens, however,...that noble description of a dying soldier — Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings teaze him ; Death comes ! wi' fearless eye he sees him ; Wi' bluidy... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun, is to UB less pleasing. There are specimens, however, of such...instance, that noble description of a dying soldier— Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings teaze him; Death comes! wi' fearless eye he sees him; Wi' bluidy hand... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 334 pages
...of Robert Bruce to his army at Bannockburn, beginning Scots wha hae wi' Wallace Bled. The Death Song beginning — Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun, is to us less pleasing. There are specimens, however, of such vigour and emphasis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1901 - 444 pages
...the day — Evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the song. FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ! Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear, tender ties, Our race of existence is... | |
 | Charles Shirra Dougall - Literary landmarks - 1904 - 440 pages
...Ellisland, the " Song of Death," which Thomas Campbell held to be one of his most brilliant efforts ? " Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun ! Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties ! Our race of existence is... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1909 - 692 pages
...here's the flower that I loe best, The rose that's like the snaw. THE SONG OF DEATH The 7W-"Orananaoig." FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun ; Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties, Our race of existence is... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...Evening. The wounded and dying ef tki victorious army are supposed tj join in the following SONG OF DEATH. Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies Now gay with the broad setting sun : Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear, tender ties — Our race of existence... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Poets, Scottish - 1910 - 156 pages
...divined the sentiment of the heroic soldier, wounded and dying on the battlefield. — SONG OF DEATH. "Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun! Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties, Our race of existence is... | |
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