 Devouring flames , and murd'ring steel ! The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread; Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night...  The Jacobite Relics of Scotland: Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the ... - Pàgina 1821821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pàgines
...Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh, baneful cause! oh, fatal morn! Accursed to ages yet unborn I The sons against their fathers stood, The parent shed...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. 0 baneful curse I 0 fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers...his children's blood ; Yet when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased — The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er tho silent plain. Oh baneful cause, oh fatal morn, Accursed hy; until there rose, From the near school-room, voices that, alas ! Were but one ceased, Tho victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pàgines
...plain. О baneful cause 1 О fatal morn ! Accursed to ages ye* unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murd'ring... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pàgines
...nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh baneful canse, oh fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn! The sous norial eyes that kindle day ; Afar ceased, Tho victor's sonl was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devonring llames and murdering... | |
 | Arthur Campbell Ainger - 1884 - 154 pàgines
...(ii) 0 baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn ! Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, 5 The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn ! Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murd'ring... | |
 | Gilbert Samuel Macquoid - 1888 - 574 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh, baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn — The sons against their fathers...his children's blood : Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause, 0 fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers...naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel I The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1890 - 378 pàgines
...smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. Oh ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ; The sons against their fathers...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
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