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When war is raging the laws are dumb.
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
To a child all weather is cold.
To a child all weather is cold.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw read more
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
