...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A...

...which attend upon the duties of the dead, from the hour of dissolution. CHAPTER VI. O woman ! ever in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow,...

...those brave fellows who though in agony, silently but significantly expressed their gratitude. " Oh woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspin made, When pain and anguish wring the brow A minist'ring...

...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" 25» XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" XXX. O, now Each proud oppressor's mortal foe." — " Enough, enough ; sit do variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...day. Go, visit thou, in their distress, THE WIDOW and the FATHERLESS. 1830. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'* Marmion, canto vi....

...and supported the dreary path which leads to the grave. The poet was mistaken when he sung — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." That is a calumny upon their virtues ; but he does them justice when he adds: — • " When pain and...

...ce complexion, on broiled hedgehog, under the green-wood tree, and with tbe terror of the coustable before his eyes. On the high-road he met with nothing...wringing his brow,' in VOL. x. 36 the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministeringangel, who had often smoothed it with brush and comb in...