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 3971765Full view - About this book
| Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...resounded in the halls ; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of the Clutha (Clyde) was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook here its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows... | |
| Charles Mackie - Castles - 1850 - 556 pages
...IT. has 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 shakes there its lonely head. The fox looks out from the window, the rank grass of the walls... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clntha 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... | |
| John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...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 bend ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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;... | |
| George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...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... | |
| 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 - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...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... | |
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