 Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise...  Outlines of modern farming - Page 268by Robert Scott Burn - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 1832 - 852 pages
...led him to feel with her own bard, that so long as they continue free from ' luxury's contagion,' ' A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle.' "Among his delightful rambles in the north of England, in the month of August, 1824,... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1807 - 248 pages
...simpte lives prevint From tuxury's contagion, weak and vile 1 Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their rBuch-lov'd hie!" 3. Laws are to have their scope upon any one found in the land where they are enacted,... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1807 - 246 pages
...luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous fofuface may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lor'd ulel" 3. Laws are to have their scope upon any on« found in the land where they are enacted,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart;... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile 1 Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undannted heart... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. XXI. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro' Wallace's undaunted... | |
 | 1843 - 752 pages
...contagion, weak and vile," — with the exultation — " Then, howc'er crowns and coronett be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle." Those who wear crowns and coronets should know that their best security, their only... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vilel Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle! O Thou ! who pour'd'the patriotic tide That stream'd through Wallace's undaunted heart... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle XXI. Who dated to nobly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second glorious part,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pages
...Luxury's eontagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er erowns and eoronets be rent, A virtuous populaee may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their mueh-lovM ittc. XXI, O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotie tide That stream'd thro' Wallaee's undaunted... | |
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