 Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!  The Songs of England and Scotland - Page 2561835 - 675 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...Freeman stand, or freeman fa' ? — Let him on wi' me ! " By oppression's woes and pains,. By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! " Lay the proud usurper low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ; Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do or die !" and sung by... | |
 | 1839 - 880 pages
...knave ? Wha can fill a coward's ;;rave ? Wha sae base as be a slave ? — Let him turn and See ! " Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw ? Freeman stand, or freeman fa' ? Let him on wi' me ! '' By oppression's woes and pains, By our sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 pages
...draw, Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Let him follow me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! * This noble strain was conceived by our poet during a storm among the wilds of Glen-Ken in Galloway.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...blest, Whose infant lips have drained a mother's breast. Gay. By oppression's woes and pains ! Bv your sons in servile chains '. We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free '. TJerni. Strike up the danco, the cava bowl fill high, Drain every drop 1 — to-morrow... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a slave ! Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa,' Let him on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest... | |
 | 1840 - 808 pages
...Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa* Soldier, on wi' me ! III. By oppressions, woes, and pains, By our sons in servile chains. We will drain our dearest veins, But we shall be free! Lay the proud usurper low ! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! I.... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Great Britain - 1842 - 218 pages
...and one strong desire nerved every arm to drive back the tyrant's legions from the British strand. By oppression's woes and pains, By our sons in servile...will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free. Then a great nation's mighty heart throbbed with that generous emotion, — the love of liberty, —... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha 6ae base as be a slave 1 — Let him turn and flee ! " Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly...draw ? Freeman stand, or freeman fa'? — Let him on wi' me ! " By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, VVe will drain our dearest... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...grave ? Who so base to be a slave? — Let him turn and flee. For Columbia's rights and law Who the sword will strongly draw ? Freeman stand, or freeman fa' ? — Let him follow me. By impressment's woes and pains, By our seamen's servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins, But... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...yield, Seen them drove from every field, Routed, ruin'd or repell'd : Seize the spirit of those times ! By oppression's woes and pains — By our sons in servile chains — We will bleed from all our veins, But they shall be — shall be free. O'er the standard of their power Bid... | |
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