| William McCarty - 1842 - 486 pagine
...impressment's woes and pains, By our seamen's 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's be free or die. See in yonder distant skies, Where the great, the good, the wise, Those who... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pagine
...eagle tower, Give them hail in such a shower As shall blast them horse and man. Lay the proud invaders low; Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow— Forward ! let us do or die ! 136 THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE. Tune—" Vne id." FREEMEN ! leave each lovely charmer! Round our sacred... | |
| 1843 - 592 pagine
...themselves for use. What could be more rousing than the closing line of the famous stanza of Burns— " Lay the proud usurpers low, Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow, FORWARD! LET us DO OB DIE!" If smooth and easy sounds were the only essentials of a fine language, if it were the only... | |
| Quaver - 1844 - 552 pagine
...king and law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Freeman stand, or freeman fa1 Caledonian ! on wi1 me ! By Oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons...Liberty's in every blow ! Forward ! let us do, or die ! Of NATIONAL SONGS. 15 GENERAL WOLFE'S SONG. How stands the glass around ? For shame ! ye take no... | |
| William Russell - 1844 - 428 pagine
...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." Softness or faintness of utterance : 3. The heavens are all blue ; and... | |
| 1844 - 328 pagine
...chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But the; shall be, shall be free ! Lay the proud usurper low ; Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Forward, let us do or die ! SMALILOU. There was an Irish lad, Who loved a cloistered nnn, And it made him very sad, For what... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pagine
...oppression's woes and pains 1 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!1 THE SAME. A» altered, et the suggestion of Mr. Thomson,... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pagine
...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 !" All Scotsmen at home and abroad swear this is the Grandest Ode out of the Bible.... | |
| William Russell - 1845 - 410 pagine
...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." Softness or faintness of utterance : The heavens are all blue; and the... | |
| 1845 - 440 pagine
...woes and pains By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall he free ! Lay the proud usurpers low [ Tyrants fall in every foe ! LIBERTY'S in every hlow ! Let us DO, or DIE ! So may God ever defend the cause of Truth and Liherty, as he did that day... | |
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