 I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls : and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely...  The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 1861765 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horatius Bonar - Sinai (Egypt) - 1857 - 440 pages
...The voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head, The moss whistled to the wind, The fox looked out from the windows, The rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling, Silence is in the house of her fathers.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...flame had resounded in the halls; and t ho voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Olutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...flame had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The htrearn of Olutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked our. from the windows;... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina ; silence is in the house... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...flames had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more ; the stream of Cutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls ; the thistle shoots there its lowly head; the moss whistled to the winds; the fox leoked out of the windows,... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - Birds - 1863 - 504 pages
...the voice of the people is heard no more. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the mosswhistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head. The moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out of the windows... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...desolate. The fire'had resounded in the halls ; and the voice of ttoe people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the window... | |
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