 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By appression's aw thee leave their evening joys, And lonely stalk, To vent thy bosom's swelling rise In pensive he— shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw? Freeman stand, or freeman fa' ? — Let him on wi' me ! " By oppression's woes and pains,. By your sons...dearest veins, But they shall be free ! " Lay the proud usurper low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ; Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do or die !" and sung by... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 pages
...Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Let him follow me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons...will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! * This noble strain was conceived by our poet during a storm among the wilds of Glen-Ken in Galloway.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 pages
...King; and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or free-man fa' ? Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons...! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall — they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 328 pages
...woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall — they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low !...Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Forward ! let us do, or die ! the learned musician despises as silly and insipid. I do not know whether... | |
 | 1839 - 880 pages
...draw ? Freeman stand, or freeman fa' ? Let him on wi' me ! '' By oppression's woes and pains, By our sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! " Lay the proud usurper low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ; Liberty's in every blow ! Let us door die !" We have so often... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...was blest, Whose infant lips have drained a mother's breast. Gay. By oppression's woes and pains ! Bv your sons in servile chains '. We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free '. TJerni. Strike up the danco, the cava bowl fill high, Drain every drop 1 — to-morrow... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa,' Let him on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons...every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do or die ! HERE'S a health to ane I love dear, Here's a health to ane I love dear, Thou art sweet as the smile... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa,' Let him on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons...But they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low f Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow t Let us do or die '. HERE'S a health to ane... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...when roused by extraordinary emotions. The last stanza of the song is perhaps the most pop'ular :— " Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every...foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! — Let us do or die ! " -.T'i -r 1 t » THE TWEED: COLDSTREAM BRIDGE. "Yarrow and Tweed to mony a tune Owre Scotland rings."... | |
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Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a Slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi 
