The Attainted Scottish Nobles (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "The Attainted Scottish Nobles."Oh, some will tune their mournfu' strains,to tell of hame-made sorrow,And if they cheat you ...
Air — "The Attainted Scottish Nobles."Oh, some will tune their mournfu' strains,to tell of hame-made sorrow,And if they cheat you ...
TOO long the kingdoms of the world,Have own'd a Tyrant's beck;Altars and Thrones in ruin hurl'd,Have shared one common wreck.BRITANNIA ...
Sons of the seagirt land,Strong round the banner stand Steadfast and true!Honour and loyaltyEver our "watchword be!Flutter o'er land ...
Clouds above the dark hills streamingflecked with foam the seas.Island castle, proud, defiant,standing square and self-reliant,down the centuries.Once you housed ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the world can ...
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise ...
The admonition not to follow placing our hopes in the powerful of this earth They, like us, returning to the ...
Solomon in the Temple the people gathered coming before the Lord in a national day of prayer Climbing the platform ...
The crowd like sheep mindlessly following the exhortations of the leaders stirring them to shout Not hosannahs, praises to the ...
Entering, the courts of the king standing in his presence knowing God was with them that he went before them ...
The first commandment written on the tablets carried from the mountain by Moses of old, "You shall have no other ...
I have often wondered, is it better that the judge was laughing would that be my one good moment that ...
We remember what they have done serving in our place going where we would not choose to go giving their ...
Five years later, after countless loss, deep sacrifice, of those who answered the call we are still at war still ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
Tick-tocking in my ear My dollar clock I hear. 'Arise,' it seems to say: 'Behold another day To grasp the ...
Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes, Dear little friend of mine, I never knew. All-innocent are you, and ...
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find ...
King Robert the Bruce's deadly enemy, John of Lorn, Joined the English with eight hundred Highlanders one morn, All strong, ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Success is speaking words of praise, In cheering other people's ways. In doing just the best you can, With every ...
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