A Queer BookW. Blackwood, 1832 - 379 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 300 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
الصفحة 129 - Judging it better some lives to spare, — Which fancy takes me now and then, — And settle our quarrel hand to hand, Than each with our ten thousand men. "God send you soon, my Lord Douglas, To Border foray sound and haill ! But never strike a tinkler again, If he be a Johnstone of Annandale.
الصفحة 123 - Douglas, Than Lord James Douglas cares for me ; But I want to let his proud heart know, That a Tinkler's a man as well as he." So they fought on, and they fought on, Till good Lord Douglas' breath was gone, And the Tinkler bore him to the ground, With rush, with rattle, and with groan. " O hon ! O hon ! " cried the proud Douglas, " That I this day should have lived to see ! For sure my...
الصفحة 127 - tis true, But noble hearts are allied to me; For I am the lord of Annandale, And a knight and earl as well as thee." Then Douglas strained the hero's hand, And took from it his sword again: "Since thou art the lord of Annandale, Thou hast eased my heart of meikle pain.
الصفحة 149 - I row'd my apron round his head, For fear my men should tell, And I hid him in my Lord's castle, And I nursed him there mysell.
الصفحة 119 - ... may; For the Earl of Ross is as brave a lord As ever gave good weapon sway. "But I for ae poor siller merk, Or thirteen pennies and a bawbee, Will tak in hand to fight you baith, Or beat the winner, whiche'er it be.
الصفحة 118 - And the lady's palfrey flew the first, With many a clang of silver bell: Swift as the raven's morning flight The two went scouring ower the fell. "By this time they are man and wife, And standing in St. Mary's fane; And the lady in the grass-green silk A maid you will never see again." "But I can tell thee, saucy wight,— And that the runaway shall prove,— Revenge to a Douglas is as sweet As maiden charms, or maiden's love.
الصفحة 128 - In that disguise thou'rt pleased to wear; All Scotland knows thy matchless arm, And England by experience dear. " We have been foes as well as friends, And jealous of each other's sway ; But little can I comprehend Thy motive for these pranks to-day.
الصفحة 117 - OH, came ye ower by the Yoke-burn Ford, Or down the King's Road of the cleuch ? Or saw ye a Knight and a Lady bright, Wha hae gane the gate they baith shall rue ?" " I saw a Knight and a Lady bright, Ride up the cleuch at the break of day ; The Knight upon a coal-black steed, And the dame on one of the silver gray.
الصفحة 363 - She never was bless' d in holy church, Nor christen'd in holy name. But there she lived an earthly flower Of beauty so supreme, Some fear'd she was of the mermaid's brood, Come out of the salt sea faeme. Some said she was found in a fairy ring, And born of the fairy queen ; For there was a rainbow behind the moon That night she first was seen.