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Poetry: The Ha' Bible

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
June
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
Additional Text

Author's last name misspelled as Nichol, instead of Nicoll.

Poem
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The following beautiful efiusion s taken from the poems of Robert Nicho!, the Peasant Poet of Scotland. Burns' true successor. THE HA' BIBLE. God! unto thee l kneel, And thank Thee! Tliou unlo my native land. Yea to the outspread eartli - Hnthstretched in love Tliy everlasting hand And Tliou Jiast g-iven earth. and sea, and air - Yea all ihat heart can nsk of good, and pura, and fair! And Father, Tliou hast spread Before men's eyes tliis Charter of the Frec, Thatnll Thy Book might read, Andjnstice love, and trurh, and liberty. The Gift was unto men - the Giver God! Tliou Slave! it .slamps thee Man - go spurn thy weary lond! Thon doub!y precious Book! Unto thy light what doth not Scotland owe? Thou teachest Age to die. And Youth in Truth unsullied up to grow! In lov!y homes a Cotnforter nrt thou - A Sunbcain sent from God - an everlasting bow! O'er thy broad, ampie page, How mnny dim and aged eyes have pored! How mnny hearts o'er thee In silence deep and holy haveadored! How many mothers by tlicir infants' bed, Thy holy, b'essed, pure, cbild-loving wordshavc read! And o'er thee soft young hands Haveoftin truthful plightcd lovebeen joined; And thou to wedded hearts Hast been a boud, an altar of the mind! Above all kingly power or kingly law, May Scotland reverence aye. the Bibi.e of the Ha'!