 FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties — Our race of existence is run ! Thou grim king of terrors, thou life's gloomy foe! Go frighten the coward...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2701809Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 pages
...evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song: L FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties — Our race of existence... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...go. [" Thp first holf-st»ni» of kbit song is old."— Bc'»*» l THE SONG OF DEATH. ROBERT BURNS. Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ! Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties ! Our race of existence is... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...evening—The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song:— Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with tho bright setting sun! Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender tics, Our race of existence... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...Robert Bruce to his army at Bannockburn, beginning, " Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace Bled. The Death Song, beginning, " Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun," is to us less pleasing. There are specimens, however, of such vigour and emphasis... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...beginning, " Farewell, thou fair day, ihou green earth and ye skies. Now gay with the bright setting sun." is to us less pleasing. There are specimens,...instance, that noble description of a dying soldier. " Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings teaie him : Death comes ! wi' fearless eye he sees him ; Wi' bluidy... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...Robert Bruce to his army at Bannockburn, beginning, " Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled." The Death Song, beginning, " Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun," is to us less pleasing. There are specimens, however, of such vigour and emphasis... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 pages
...agitation, from her apartment; and, followed by Dr. Killbreath, left the cavern. CHAPTER XVII. • Farewell, thou fair day ; thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties, Our race of existence is... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...Evening.— The Wounded and Dying of the Victorious Army are supposed to join in the following Song: FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender tie«. Our race of existence is... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...tu frontem : subrideat altera virgo : Alterius risu frons magis ista placet. The Death of the Brave. Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties ; Our race of existence is... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 236 pages
...evening. — The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song :— FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth and ye skies, Now gay with the bright setting sun ; Farewell loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties — Our race of existence... | |
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