 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be—shall be free { Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow... | |
 | 1801 - 506 psl.
...! We will drain our deareft veins, But they ihallbe free I Lay the proud ufurpers low! Tyrants fail in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do, or die ! " So may God ever defend the caitft of truth and liberty as he did that ihy ! — Amen.'1 Vol. iv.... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa% Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins^ • : But they shall be — shall be free ! Lay the proud usurper low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 450 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ; We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ; Liberty's in every blow... | |
 | 1804 - 450 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Caledonian ! on vi' me ! ' By oppression's woes and pains! I!;, yonr sons in servile chains^""" We will drain our dearest veins; • • \ But they shall be— shall be free 1 Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall iiftvery foe, Libert/ 's in every .blow !... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 260 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains ; We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free ! 165 RAVING WINDS AROUND HER BLOWING. / COMPOSED these verses on Miss Isabella M'Leod... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 psl.
...Free-man stand, or free-man fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be — shall be free! L.ay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow!... | |
 | 1814 - 618 psl.
...Freemen stand, or freemen fa', Caledonian ! on wi' me ! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall, they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in ev'ry foe ! Liberty's in ev'ry blow... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 psl.
...more finisheH copy will be found afterwards. ' E. Eg By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins,...the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! LIRERTY'S in every blow ! LET us DO, OR DIE ! So may God ever defend the cause of Truth and Liberty,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 630 psl.
...glory and the happiness of yoar posterity, upon the firm and everlasting basis of genuine freedom. " Lay the proud usurpers low, Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow, Forward, let us do or die." On the part which the ministers of this country may have decided to take... | |
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Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me! 
