 | 1745 - 522 pages
...His lyart hafltets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And "Let us worship God !" he says with solemn air. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal king, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope springs... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And ' Let us worship...plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name ; Or noble Elgin bears the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compared with these, Italian trills... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...wales 66 a portion with judicious care; And " Let us worship God," he says, wi' solemn air. They chaunt their artless notes in simple guise, They tune their...aim; Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, 47 ruth, mercy, kind feeling. 43 halesome, wholesome. 49 parriteh, oatmeal-pudding. 50 soupe, sauce,... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 pages
...o'er, with patrlarchlal grace, The big ha'-blble, ance his father's pride: * • * • • He wales a portion with Judicious care; And 'Let us worship...hearts, by far the noblest aim; Perhaps 'Dundee's' wild-warbling measures rise; Or plaintive 'Martyrs,' worthy of the name; Or noble 'Elgin* beets the... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 pages
...turns o'er, with patriarchial grace. The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride: * * * * • He wales a portion with Judicious care; And 'Let us worship...hearts, by far the noblest aim; Perhaps 'Dundee's' wild-warbling measures rise; Or plaintive 'Martyrs,' worthy of the name; Or noble 'Elgin' beets the... | |
 | James D. Smart - Religion - 1954 - 212 pages
...after the evening meal, the father with the big family Bible before him, " And ' Let us worship God I' he says, with solemn air. They chant their artless...rise, Or plaintive ' Martyrs,' worthy of the name. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Job's pathetic... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...his allies at defiance. ..." CHAPTER VI. "Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God.' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness;... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1388 pages
...many feet of the water's edge. Chapter VI "Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And let us worship God, he says, with solemn air." Burns, "The Cotter's Saturday Night," 11. 106-108. HEYWARD, and his female companions, witnessed this... | |
 | James Rawlings Sydnor - Choral singing - 1989 - 148 pages
...psalms in his poem "The Cotter's Saturday Night." The father reads scripture and then, writes Burns, They chant their artless notes in simple guise: They..."Martyrs," worthy of the name; Or noble "Elgin" beets [feeds] the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays. Burns comments on this scene... | |
 | Geddes MacGregor - Fiction - 1990 - 292 pages
...His lyart haffets u=eann ' thin and bare; Those itrains that once did sweet in Zion glide He wales a portion with judicious care. And "Let us worship God!" he says with solemn air. — Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday \ight J_ O understand the religion of a people is to understand... | |
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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... 
