 For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,...  The New Scots Magazine - Page 951830Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ;...They sleep with him who, sleeps below : And, if thou mourn' st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...employ'd, when wanted motit ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound i And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate,...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error, him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And sacred be the last,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ;...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ;...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When hest employed, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And all the reasoning powers divine, Te penetrate, resolve, comhine; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 256 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, arid lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ;...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And sacred be the last... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, lVhen best employed , and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and love profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And...They sleep with him who sleeps below: And , if thou mourn' st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to pl»y, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers di vine, To penetrate, resolve, combine; And feelings keen,...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And sacred be the last... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 530 pages
...For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ;...sleeps below : And, if thou mourn'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd, And sacred be the last... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...lesson of the poet} We "Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound, And feelings keen, and fancy's glow — They sleep with him who sleeps below/ i DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST. BY SINCLABE KELBURN, AB OF THE THIRD PRESBYTERIAN COXGREGATIOX, l:i:j,:'Avr.... | |
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