 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 252 pages
...sweet babe fatherless, An' mony a widow mourning, I left the lines an' tented field, Where lang I 'd been a lodger, My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor but honest sodger. The Soldier's return. 167 A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; An'... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 364 pages
...his mistress to have taken place. Wi' monie a sweet babe fatherless, And monie a widow mourning,1 I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...knapsack a' my wealth — A poor but honest sodger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstained wi' plunder ; And for fair Scotia, hame again,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 466 pages
...blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning : I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...a lodger, My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor and honest soger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; And for fair... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning ; I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor but honest sodger. A leal,1 light heart was in my breast, A hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; And for fair Scotia, hame again,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...O.' WHEN wild war's deadly blast was Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning : I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...a lodger, My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor and honest soger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; And for fair... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1869 - 456 pages
...gentle Peace returning, And eyes again with pleafure beam'd That had been blear'd with mourning ; I left the lines, and tented field, Where lang I'd been a lodger, My humble knapfack a' my wealth, A poor and honeft fodger. A leal, light heart was in my breaft, My hand unftain'd... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1869 - 466 pages
...gentle Peace returning, And eyes again with pleafure beam'd That had been blear'd with mourning ; I left the lines, and tented field, Where lang I'd been a lodger, My humble knapfack a' my wealth, A poor and honeft fodger. A leal, light heart was in my breaft, My hand unftain'd... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...sweet babe fatherless, And monie a widow mourning, I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I 'd been a lodger, My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor but honest sodger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder, And for fair Scotia hame again,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...blawn, * * And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning, I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor but honest sodger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; And for fair Scotia, hame again,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...blawn, And gentle Peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning : I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I'd been...a lodger, My humble knapsack a' my wealth, A poor and honest sodger. A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder ; And for fair... | |
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A leal, light heart was in my breast, My hand unstain'd wi' plunder; And for fair Scotia hame again, I cheery on did wander: I thought upon the banks o' Coil, I thought upon my Nancy, I thought upon the witching smile That caught my youthful fancy. 
