 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! 0 Scotia! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil, Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And oh ! may Heaven their simple... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in 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 toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, O ! may heaven their simple lives... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, O, may Heaven their simple lives... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd ! 0 Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, 0 ! may heaven their simple lives... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And, O, may Heaven their simple lives... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Disguising oft [lie wretch of human-kind, Studied in 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 toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And, O! may Heaven their simple lives... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - 1856 - 602 pages
...Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd! 0 Scotia! my dear, my native soil; For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! A.nd, O! may Heaven their simple lives... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...such a man have been so neglected — so 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 toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content !" No son of Scotland did ever regard... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...such a man have been so neglected — so 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 toil Be blest with health, and peace, and aweet content !" No son of Scotland did ever regard... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! 0 Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And, 0 ! may Heaven their simple lives... | |
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O 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 while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved isle. 
