Sixty years in Texas Page: 292 of 398
5 p. l., 384 p., incl. illus., plates, ports. front. (port.) 23 cm.View a full description of this book.
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278 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
"Ye banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?*
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary, fu' o' care !"
And Walter Scott, the poet
And novelist so grand,
With such transcendant genius
He has immortalized that land.
The great magician with his magic pen
Our interest does awake,
With Loch Katrine and the Silver Strans,
And the Lady of the Lake.
Geo. Jackson.
IRELAND.
When I think of dear old Ireland
My heart is sore distressed,
Her noble sons in poverty
And by England so oppressed.
When in olden times the English
To heathen gods were turning,
Old Ireland was a Christian land
And the seat of piety and learning.
Her missionaries were sent out,
And went from place to place,
And preached the Gospel to the pe'ople
Of the Anglo-Saxon race.
*Wallace was betrayed and suffered a horrible
death at London. His head was cut off and placed on
a pole on London bridge; his right arm displayed at
Newcastle, his left arm at Berwick; one leg was sent
to Perth, the other to the town of Aberdeen; the
other parts of the body was burned.
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/292/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.