I saw a band of brothers move,
With slow and solemn tread;
Their hearts were join'd by ties of love,
In charity were wed.
Sad types of light's illumin'd ray
Shone on the path they trod;
And in the midst, wide open lay
The gospel of our God.
I asked a…
AIR - "Good morrow to your night-cap."
Behave yoursel' before folk,
Behave yoursel' before folk,
And dinna be sae rude to me,
As kiss me sae before folk.It wadna gi'e me meikle pain,
Gin we were scen and heard by name, To tak' a kiss, or grant you…
"We hath not words wherewith to vent
The soul of agony,
When every pang of feeling blent
Burns in the averted eye!" We met as youths will ever meet,
Ere their warm feelings die;
Or cold neglect, or dark deceit,
Have chill'd love's beaming…
My life is like the summer rose,
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close,
Is scatter'd on the ground to die,
Yet on the rose's humble bed, The sweetest dew of night are shed, As if she wept such waste to see, But none shall…
-------- A land of peace, Where yellow fields unspoil'd, and pastures green,Mottled with herds and flocks, who crop secureTheir native herbage, nor have ever known A stranger's stall, smile gladly. See through its tufted alleys to Heaven's roof The…
Oh! ask not, hope thou not too much
Of sympathy below;
Few are the hearts whence one same touch
Bids the sweet fountain flow;
Few - and by still conflicting powers
Forbidden here to meet:-
Such lies would make this life of ours
Too fair for aught so…
Farewell mother! - tears are streaming
Down thy tender, pallid check!
I, in gems and roses gleaming, On eternal sunshine dreaming,
Scarce this sad farewell may speak;
Farewell, mother! now I leave thee,
And thy love - unspeakable. -
One to cherish -…
How sad and forsaken
Is that heavy heart,
Where hope cannot waken,
Nor sorrow depart!
So and so lonely
No inmate is there,
Save one - and that only
Is chilling Despair.
How sad is the slumber
Long sufferings bring,
Whose visions outnumber
The woes…
I'll hie to the westward, my own native home,
On the breast of the dark rolling river;
My light bark shall dance o'er its water in foam,
With the force that a strong arm can give her.
I'll hie to the west, to the land of my birth,
And revisit the…
