 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
 | Cheltenham College - 1868 - 570 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 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...of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and cursea life. Thy swains are famished on the rooks Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravished... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pàgines
...roofe 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;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 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...babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses Ufe. Thy swains are famuh'd on the rucks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks; Thy ravish'd virgins... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. od he, . . . You ask'd me why the poor complain, And...Died 1843. 1223.— THE OLD MAN'S COMFOETS. " You ; Thy infants perish ou the plain. What boots it, then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 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 of war: Itethinks him of his babes and wife. Then smites his breast and curses life. Thy swains are famished... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 284 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;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 270 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monnments 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;... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pàgines
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sccg afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him...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;... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 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... | |
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