 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 pages
...sorrows,-r-all may cease. N SCOTLAND. " Oh 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«'er nnl.ii: the filial band, That knits me to thy nigged... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...patriot's enthusiasm, he exclaims, — " ' O, 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 Shall e'er untie the filial band That binds me to thy rugged... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...AUTUMN DAYS IN SCOTLAND. BY HORVAL. " O 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 tires ! what mortal hand Can c't'r untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand?... | |
 | Isabella Steward - 1840 - 938 pages
...the parlour, and lay the cloth. We must look lively, and. welcome the young Geraldine " CHAPTER X. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires t whut mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knis me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...unhonour'd, and unsung. Vol. II.— T Oh 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... | |
 | Martha Pearce Rouch, Primogenita - Children - 1840 - 146 pages
...dear Sally was located, — one which might be apostrophized in the beautiful language of the Poet, " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain and the flood, — " LAND of my SIRES" So might Sally add ; she would scarcely perhaps enter into the sentiment so... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...brought tears into her eyes as they pictured home, and her heart responded to the well-known lines, — " 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... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...sermons on each Sabbath," he could not renew, except faintly, his acquaintance with the country as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." Yet his health " kept up very well ;" and in strength and safety he arrived in Leeds on the 1st of... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O 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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...age—MILTON, honourable and honoured ' Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse of the poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires;' name—Milton, scholar, philosopher, poet, patriot, Christian! Need I recall to... | |
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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! 
