 | Robert Fergusson - 1773 - 344 pages
...ill, That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil ee, And corn been scowder'd on the glowin' kill. Oh mock na this, my friends, but rather mourn, Ye in life's brawest...dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Though age her... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...relating to the young ones, tales of witches and ghosts. The poet exclaims, • .: ' * " O mock na this my friends ! but rather mourn, " Ye in life's...dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; " The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near." In the mean time the farmer, wearied with the fatigues of the... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...; That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil ee ; And corn been scowder'd on the glowin kill. O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye in life's...dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...; That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil ee ; And corn been scowder'd on' the glowin kill. O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye in life's...dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 pages
...And corn been scowther'd on the glowing kill. O mock nae this, my friends ! but rather mourn. Ye hi life's brawest spring wi' reason clear, Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return. And dim our doleful days wi' hairnly fear ; TUC mold's ay cradled when the grave is Dear. Yet thrift, industrious,... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 274 pages
...That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil e'e ; And corn been scowder'd on the glowin kill. -. O mock na this, .my friends ! but rather mourn, . Ye .in life's, brawest spring wi' reason- clear ; Wi' ejld our idle fancies a' return, And dim our dolefu' days, wi' bairnly fear; The mind's ay cradled... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1815 - 348 pages
...; That ky hae tint their milk wi' evil eie, And corn been scowder'd on the glowing kill, O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye' in life's...reason clear, Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return, And dirn our dolefn' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near. IX. Yet thrift,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...exclaims. " O mock na this, my friends ! but rather numni, Ye in luVp brawest spring wi' reason clear, WP eild our idle fancies a' return, And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnljr fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near." In the mean time the farmer, wearied... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...our ill ; That ky hae tint 8 their milk wi' evil ee ; An' corn been scowder'd9 on the glowin' kiln. O mock nae this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye...in life's brawest spring wi' reason clear; Wi' eild io our idle fancies a" return, And dim our dolefu" days wi' bairnlyii fear; The mind's ay cradled whan... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pages
...; That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil ee, A n' corn been scowder'd on the glowin' kill. O mockna this, my friends, but rather mourn, Ye in life's brawest...reason clear ; Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return, An' dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift,... | |
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O mock na this, my friends ! but rather mourn, Ye in life's brawest spring wi' reason clear ; Wi' eild our idle fancies a' return, And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's ay cradled whan the grave is near. 
