 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 страници
...Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough burr-thissle, spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turned the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear : No nation, no station, My envy e'er could raise, A Scot still, but blot still, I knew nae higher... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 страници
...Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur Thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turned the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear. BURNS. HOME HAPPINESS. Ill XXV. HOME HAPPINESS. " A CELERRATED ancient orator, of whose poems we have... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 страници
...That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least ! The rough bur-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded...the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear." Such hopes were .with him in his " bright and shining youth," surrounded as it was with toil and trouble... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 страници
...That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least ! The rough bur-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded...the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear." Such hopes were with him in his " bright and shining youth," surrounded as it was with toil and trouble... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 страници
...That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least ! The rough bur-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded...the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear." Such hopes were with him in his " bright and shining youth," surrounded as it was with toil and trouble... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 356 страници
...That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded...the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear. No nation, no station My envy e'er could raise; A Scot still, but blot still, I knew nae higher praise!... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 страници
...nsefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least." " The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide Among the bearded bear, I turned the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear." I shall now, gentlemen, refer to Robert Burns in a somewhat difl'erent character from that of a poet.... | |
 | Boston Burns Club (Boston, Mass.) - 1859 - 100 страници
...conscious of this feeling ; he knew where his strength lay. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Among the bearded bear — I turned the weeder-clips aside And spared the symbol dear. The thistle was to him not a weed but a symbol : the poet spared what the farmer should have cut down.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 страници
...I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book would make, Or sing a sang at least ! " The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded...the weeder-clips aside And spared the symbol dear." Such hopes were with him in his " bright and shining youth," surrounded as it was with toil and trouble... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 страници
...Scotland's sake, Some usefu" plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough burr-thissle, spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turned the weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear ! No nation, no station, My envy e'er could raise, A Scot still, but blot still, I knew nae higher... | |
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E'en then, a wish, I mind its power — A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. 
