Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die... The Genius, and Character of Burns - Page 144by John Wilson - 1854 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pages
...pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be—shall be free { Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Forward! let us do, or die! NB I have borrowed the last stanza from the common stall edition of Wallace.... | |
| 1801 - 506 pages
...! We will drain our deareft veins, But they ihallbe free I Lay the proud ufurpers low! Tyrants fail in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do, or die ! " So may God ever defend the caitft of truth and liberty as he did that ihy ! — Amen.'1 Vol. iv.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 450 pages
...stand, or FREE-MAN fa', Let him follow me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they...Tyrants fall in every foe ! LIBERTY'S in every blow I LET us DO, or DIE ! So may God ever defend the cause of Truth and Liberty, as he did that day 1 —... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...and pains ! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free! L.ay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Forward! let us do, or die ! BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA. MONTGOMERY. HARP of Memnon ! sweetly strung To the... | |
| 1814 - 618 pages
...woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall, they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in ev'ry foe ! Liberty's in ev'ry blow ! Forward ! let us go, or die ! POPULATION OF THE WORLD. From Le... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 pages
...finished ™Pli will be found afterwards. E. Eg By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they...the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! LIRERTY'S in every blow ! LET us DO, OR DIE ! So may God ever defend the cause of Truth and Liberty,... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 630 pages
...glory and the happiness of yoar posterity, upon the firm and everlasting basis of genuine freedom. " Lay the proud usurpers low, Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow, Forward, let us do or die." On the part which the ministers of this country may have decided to take... | |
| 1839 - 870 pages
...or freeman fa' ? — Let him on wi' me ! " By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! " Lay the proud usurper low! Tyrants fall in every foe ; Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do or die !" We have so often... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 pages
...stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they...foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do, or die 1 So may God ever defend the cause of Truth and Liberty, as He did that day ! — Amen. PS I shewed... | |
| Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1819 - 370 pages
...they may be said "to hold a bond of fate. "By oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, , But they shall be free!" — BURNS. I cannot flatter myself with the hope that these volumes are free from errors in point of... | |
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