 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
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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...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... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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...breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocka, "Where once they fed their wanton tiocks; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants... | |
 | 1854 - 356 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 famish 'd on the rocks Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pàgines
...no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. 2 The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...wanton flocks : Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. 3 What boots it, then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pàgines
...no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. 2 The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...wanton flocks : Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. 3 What boots it, then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pàgines
...more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. J-.., The wretched owner sees afar • His all become the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door j In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 famish 'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 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...wanton flocks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it, then, in ev'ry clime, Through the wide-spreading... | |
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