 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
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...lines of 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...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... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...arts of hell, in wickedness refined! 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, ant sweet content ? And O! may Heaven their simple lives , prevent... | |
 | 1844 - 834 pages
...sure, will cordially sympathize — " О 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." Sir JAMES CAMPBELL of Glasgow said — In proposing the toast with which I have been entrusted, I shall... | |
 | 1844 - 828 pages
...cordially sympathize — * 0 Scotia ! my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaтеп is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content." Sir JAMES CAMPBELL of Glasgow said — In proposing the toast with which I have been entrusted, I shall... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...this strain : " Oh Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent, bong 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... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...: " Oh Srotia ! my dear, my native soil ! for whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent, Long may Iby 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! О Scotia! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil, [tent! Be blest with health. and peace, and sweet conr Pope't Ee«f on Man. And, О ! may Heaven their... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...forgotten—so left alone to sicken and die. " 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!" / No son of Scotland did ever regard her with more fiilial affection—did ever in strains so sweet... | |
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