 | 1829 - 432 pages
...ye lie ; For, sin' I hae seen your face this nicht, The land I will never see !" They had na sail'da league, a league, A league, but barely three, When...dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. « A half-peck. The anchors brak, and the tap-masts lap, It was sic a deidly storm ; And the waves... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...i280A.D.] SIR PATRICK SPENS. And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lifti grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 pages
...his men and the coming storm. This is very finely described in the longer version : — " They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the litt grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. " The anchors brak, and the top-masts... | |
 | 1858 - 422 pages
...in her arm ; And I fear, I fear, my master dear, That we shall come to harm ! " They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew lond, And gurly grew the sea." Who but a pedant would grumble at him for the following? O laith, laith... | |
 | 1852 - 1202 pages
...his men and the coming storm. This is very finely described in the longer version :— " They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the litt grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. " The anchors brak, and the top-masts... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1854 - 552 pages
...considering that in essentials he was where he was before, and even Charles could not be Amy. CHAPTER XXIII. A league, but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind grew loud, They hadna sailed a league, a league, And gurly grew the sea. Sin PATRICB SPBNS.—(Old... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...Wi' the auld moon in her arm j And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll eome to harm." They liadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lift3 grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Wi" the autd moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lift 3 grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap,*... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1857 - 438 pages
...the auld moon in her arm ; » And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lifi grew dark, and the wind blew loud, « And gurly grew the sea. • The ankers brak, and the topmasts... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When the lift3 grew (lark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brat, and the topmasts... | |
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Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. 
