...royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a...

...Night." "The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high . . Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...sped The precepts sage they wrote to many a land. . . Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art The pompous...

...the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bad eternal warfare wage with Amalek's ungracious progeny . . . Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head. — Robert Burns in The Cotter's Saturday Night Apart from the special place the Bible had in the Scottish...

...Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other Holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. (II 122-26) The family members then turn their attention to their own Scottish nation through singing....

...royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire;...sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Palmos banished. Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronoun'd by Heaven's...

...around this ample hearth, and at the close of the evening sittings we always heard, in song or prayer, how "Guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in Heaven the sacred name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head." " The west half of the lower story was divided...