 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy ragged strand ! Ktill, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now,...better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettricke... | |
 | Adolphe Louis A. Perraud (card, bp. of Autun.) - Ireland - 1862 - 618 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me Ui thy rugged strand? Still, as I view each well-known scene Think what is now, and what hath been, Scems as, to me, of ail bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left, And thus, 1 love them... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...mouldering tops between, With venerable grandenr mark the scene. GOLDSMITH. — Traveller, Line 100. View each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been. SCOTT. — Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VL Stanza 2. Tho" from troth I haply err, The scene preserves... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettricke... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene,...love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. FROM 'MARMION.' 265. PITT AND Fox. To mute and to material things, New life revolving summer brings... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can ere untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene,...thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene....still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...the flood, land of my sires! what mortal hand can e'er untie the filial band, that knits me to thy rugged strand! still, as I view each well-known scene,...better still even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, though none should guide my feeble way: still feel the breeze down Ettrick... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...sires ! what mortal baud Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! StiH, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now,...better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettricke... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Ev'n in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble... | |
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Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view... 
