 I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood! ' It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 147by Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, " Nor fishes in the flood, " Till my three sons come hame to me,..." In earthly flesh and blood !" It fell about the Martinmass, Whan nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. *' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood ! 121 It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 pages
...came to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood ! Q It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 386 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease,1 Nor fishes2 in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and hlood!"— * It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sous... | |
 | Richard John King - 1840 - 124 pages
...about wi' gillyflowers; I wot sweet company for to see!" and again in "The Wife of Usher's Well"— " It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk; The Carline wife's three sons came harm: And their hats were o" the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But... | |
 | Richard John King - 1842 - 352 pages
...came to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes1 in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood." — It fell about the Martin mas When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1844 - 178 pages
...were come,' :And the nights wer lang and mirk, When in and cam her ain twa sons, And their hats made o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheuch ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneuch. ' Blow up the fire, now, maidens... | |
 | 1845 - 258 pages
...were come, And the nights were lang and mirk, When in and cam' her ain twa sons, And their hats made o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheuch ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneuch. " Blow up the fire, now, maidens... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...were come, And the nights were lang and mirk, When in and came her ain twa sons, And their hats made o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheuch ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneuch. " Blow up the fire now, maidens mine,... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1846 - 302 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she 'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me,...and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, I And their hats were o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in any she ugh ; But... | |
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