 | 1910 - 506 pages
...syke 5 nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; * But at the gates o Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. " Blow up the fire, my maidens, Bring water from the...And she's taen her mantle her about, Sat down at the bed-side. Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray ; The eldest to the youngest said,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 972 pages
...syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. ' Blow up the fire, my maidens ! Bring water from the...three sons are well.' And she has made to them a bed, She 's made it large and wide ; And she 's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pages
...syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. . . . "Blow up the fire, my maidens, Bring water from the...she's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. "Lie still, lie still but a little wee while, Lie still but if we may ; Gin my mother should... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 460 pages
...7 nor ditch, Nor yet in ony shengh 8 ; But at the gates o Paradise, That hirk grew fair eneugh. 7 ' Blow up the fire, my maidens, Bring water from the...a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sous are well.' 8 And she has made to them a bed, She 's made it large and wide, 30 And she 's taen... | |
 | James J. Wilhelm - 1990 - 366 pages
...fair eneugh. one peasant 10 troubles 15 birch 20 gully furrow 1. "Blow up the fire, my maidens, 25 Bring water from the well; For a' my house shall feast this night Since my three sons are well." 8. And she has made to them a bed, She's made it large and wide, 30 And she's ta'en her mantle her... | |
 | Sandra M Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Diana Ohehir - 1995 - 386 pages
...in sike nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh, But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens, Bring water from the...she's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray. The cock he hadna' crawed but once,... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh, carline = country fashes = troubles syke = marsh sheugh = trench Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast...she's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,... | |
 | Peter-Eric Philipp, Andrew Lang - 2000 - 442 pages
...grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the...And she's taen her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,... | |
 | James Reed - 2003 - 198 pages
...in syke nor ditch. Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. 'Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the...she's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bed-side. Up then crew the red red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,... | |
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Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well. 
