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" 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 - Page 123
by Robert Burns - 1811
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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns

1845 - 440 pages
...sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human ; One point must still he greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just...try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Euch spring — its various hias : Then at the halance let's he mute, We never can adjust it ; What's...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial ...

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...ye mark. How far perhaps they rue it. * All 0» reu. 1 Both. m AwkwtnL • Л UUIc, > imall milter. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord— its various tone £ach spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let 's be mute, We never can adjust it: What...
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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...brother man, Still gentlier sister woman, Though they may gang a kenuin wrang ; To step aside is human. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...its various tone, Each spring, its various bias." It is still more surprising that a critic, capable of so eloquently developing the traits of Burns's...
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...brother man, Still gentlier sister woman, Though they may gang a kenuin wrong ; To step aside is human. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...its various tone, Each spring, its various bias." " To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, Or add fresh perfume to the violet ;"* but to debase the...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 232 pages
...equally as pointed as Pope, and infinitely superior to him in every other quality of a didactic poet. "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...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life

Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...inclination— Bat, let roe whisper i* your lug, Ye're aiblias :ie temptation. VII. Then gently кап your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho"...heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows ".i.'li chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's IK;...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...point must still be greatly dark, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wring, The moving why they do it: And just as lamely can...Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various toie Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute j We never can adjust it ; What's...
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The Works of Robert Burns. With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His ...

Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...durit, The moving why they do it: And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. vm. YVho made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us. He knows each chord — ils various tone, F.arh spring, its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can...
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Redwood: A Tale

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American fiction - 1850 - 472 pages
...left the party to pursue their design, while he gave the rein to his own meditations. CHAPTER XIV. " Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord—its various tone, Each spring—its various bias." BURNS. WE must now leave the party at Eton,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...aiblins nae temptation. VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human...the balance let's be mute ; We never can adjust it j What's done we partly may compute, But not know what's resisted. TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY.* in'* ih* noblest...
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