 Our gude ship sails the morn." " 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.  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 33by Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 588 pages
...visibility, and a prognostic of the advancing cyclone, as the old ballad-monger properly expressed it : — ' I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi" the auld moon...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' But the portent is special to these latitudes ; further south — at Malta, for instance — the phenomenon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pages
...! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! t " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld...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 grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 pages
...me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a ' ! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm! " I saw the...gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." • Gane—Suffice. f Half-fou—l\\e eighth part of a peck. They hadna sail'da league, a league, A... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...me. '' Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a' ! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw...gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 pages
...wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a'! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new inoon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld moon in her arm; " And, if we gang to sea, master, " I fear well... | |
 | 1863 - 376 pages
...foreboded. Great confidence is placed in this old prognostic : " I saw the new moon late yestreen AV'i' the auld moon in her arm, And if we gang to sea, master, I f'uar we'll come to harm." — Sir Patrick Spens. (6.) Haloes predict a storm (rain and wind, or snow... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 pages
...sea wi' me. "Make ready, make ready my merrymen a'! Our gude ship sails the morn." "Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! "I saw the...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 grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 pages
...wi' me. " Make ready, make ready my merrymen a' ! Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the...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 grew dark, and the wind... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 pages
...snow or sleet, Our ship maun sail, the morn. 0 ever alack ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. 1 saw the new moon late yest'reen, Wi' the auld moon...in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we '11 suffer harm. They hadna' sailed a league on sea, A league but barely one, of year;" which the... | |
 | 1841 - 956 pages
...prognostic of a storm occurs in an ancient ballad, entitled " Sir Patrick Spens," of Scottish history: — " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon...we gang to sea master, I fear we'll come to harm." NOTES ON TRINIDAD IN 1803. — By Capt. GH Columbine, RN (Concluded from p. 593.) THE CURRENTS. —... | |
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