 tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.  Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 161by Robert Burns - 1794Full view - About this book
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...greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; An I just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis HE alone Decidedly can try us: He knows each chord, its various tone ; Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1793 - 420 pages
...dark,. The moving Why they do it ; And jull as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. F 3 VIII. Who made the Heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord, its various tone,, Each fpi ing its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1800 - 312 pages
...Still gentler, lifter woman ; u Though they may gang a kennin wrang, " To dtp afide is human. «« Who made the heart, 'tis he alone " Decidedly can try us ; " He knows each ckirJ, its varitui tinl^ " Each fpring, its various b'as : " Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...dark, The moving «•/<;/ they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it....heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never... | |
 | 1812 - 140 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute ; We never... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pages
...moving why they they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VIIL . . . Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try' us. He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : . . • . Then at the balance let's... | |
 | John Moore - Fiction by physicians - 1816 - 278 pages
...for she was desirous of repairing it by the most winning attentions to him after-- wards. CHAPTER VI. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring its various bias ; Then at the balance let's be mute, We... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1816 - 52 pages
...greatly dark, The moving why they do it, And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 834 pages
...the assumption of a rigid censorship. The gentle philosophy of Bums teaches us the truest charity. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone ; Each spring — its various bias. * LORD HOLLAND'S Foreign Reminiirevcet.... | |
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