Lays, Legends, and LyricsSimpkin, Marshall, 1845 - 203 pàgines |
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Pàgina v - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Pàgina 137 - ... once entered into conversation, and related to us his sad tale. It is one that then echoed throughout the length and breadth of Syria — a tale whose sad reality makes the mother childless, and the wife a widow, but one ever consequent on the horrors of a forced enlistment, and the ravages of war. He told us, with tears standing in his large expressive eyes, that he had been the father of eight sons, seven of whom were dragged from him to join the Basha's army within the last two years. Four...
Pàgina 137 - will the English come to take this country? — when will you come to rescue us from our present bondage ? Here is my child — my youngest — and I know that I am but rearing him for the battle ; a few years more and he too will be taken from me. Oh ! bring him with you to your own free country — take him any where out of this unhappy hind.