 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...tell, How 'twas a towmond4 auld, sin' lint was i' the bell.5 The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reverently is laid aside,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pages
...Burns might write a Grecian Cotter's Saturday Night, where — " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the hell. XII. The cheerfu* supper done, wi' serious lace, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The hig ha'-Bihle, anee his father's pride : His honnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1845 - 480 pages
...forget belabour an' his toil. ****** * I And of Burns. The cheerfu, supper done, wi' serious face, y They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his fathec's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside.... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...will tell, How was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet reverently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...loves Its Country and its God I MRS. HEMANS. FAMILY WORSHIP. THE cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big Ha-Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'reutly is laid aside,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...; Weel pleas'd to think her bairns respected like the lave. " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha -Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...tell, How 'twas a towmond ** auld, sin' lint was i' the bell -ft. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible **, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...crowning grace of the poem is the account of the family worship : " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reverently is laid aside,... | |
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The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care... 
