 Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and...  Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern - Pàgina 123per Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pàgines
...war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. 7. Thy swains arc famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks: Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading waste... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...roof's no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks: Thv ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it then, in every... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pàgines
...expended many of the ingredients both of grave and humoroua poetry." 3/i>t:. Worki, vol. iii. p. 176. ] LL The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites big breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner ROCS famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar Jlis all become the prey of war ; Rethinks lation, heart-consoling joys And harmless famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton llo<:ks ; Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become the...smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks Where once they fed their wanton flocks; Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain;... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins see them lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravish' d virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it, then, in every clime,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins see them lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravish' d virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it, then, in every clime,... | |
 | A. D. Fillan - 1849 - 316 pàgines
...no more Invite the stranger to thy door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty ! The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life. The swains are famished on the rocks Where once they fed their wanton flocks : Thy ravished virgins... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks; Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain;... | |
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