 | Charles Mackay - Folk songs, Scots - 1867 - 360 pages
...and love 's the reward of the brave, And I maun deserve it before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeanie, maun plead my excuse ; Since honour commands me, how...Without it, I ne'er can have merit for thee ; And losing thy favour, I'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honour and fame ; And if I should... | |
 | Ballads, Scots - 1869 - 312 pages
...and love 's the reward of the brave, And I maun deserve it before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeanie, maun plead my excuse ; Since honour commands me, how...it I ne'er can have merit for thee, And without thy favour I 'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honour and fame ; And if I should luck to come... | |
 | Samuel Fergusson - English poetry - 1869 - 444 pages
...love's the reward of the brave, And I maun deserve it before I can crave. " Then glory, my Jeannie, maun plead my excuse, Since honour commands me, how...Without it, I ne'er can have merit for thee; And, losing thy favour, I'd better not be. I gae then, my lass to win glory and fame ; And if I should chance... | |
 | David Herd - Ballads, English - 1869 - 338 pages
...be gain'd; And beauty and love's the reward of the brave, And I maun deferve it before I can crave. Without it I ne'er can have merit for thee, And without thy favour I'd better not be. I gae then, my lafs, to win honour and fame, And if I mould luck to come... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...my heart is sair pained ; By ease that's inglorious no fame can be gained; And beauty and love's the reward of the brave, And I must deserve it before...it I ne'er can have merit for thee, And without thy favour I'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honour and fame, And if I should luck to come... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...And I must deserve it before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeany, maun plead my excuse ; Since honor ged Fancy lind Thee a mistress to thy mind ; Dulcet-eyed us Ceres' daughter Ami without thy favor I 'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honor and fame. And if 1 should... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - Ballads, English - 1871 - 266 pages
...can crave. Then glory, my Jeany, maun plead my excufe, Since honour commands me, how can I refufe ? Without it I ne'er can have merit for thee, And without thy favour I'd better not be. I gae then, my lafs, to win honour and fame, And if I mould luck to come... | |
 | Folk songs, Scots - 1872 - 638 pages
...and love's the reward of the brave ; And I maun deserve it before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeanie, maun plead my excuse ; . Since honour commands me,...Without it, I ne'er can have merit for thee ; And losing thy favour I'd bettor not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honour and fame ; And if I should... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...And I must deserve it before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeany, maun plead my excuse ; .Since honor n the passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing blavcry.J I 'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honor arid fame, And if 1 should luck to come gloriously... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...before I can crave. Then glory, my Jeany, maun plead my excuse ; Since honor commands me, how can 1 refuse ? Without it I ne'er can have merit for thee, And without thy favor I 'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honor and fame, And if 1 should luck to come gloriously... | |
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I'd better not be. I gae then, my lass, to win honour and fame, And if I should luck to come gloriously hame, I'll bring a heart to thee with love running o'er, And then I'll leave thee and Lochaber no more. 
