 | Christopher Stone - 1906 - 248 pages
...come down below; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I said... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...in Kent at the season of Christmas! LONGFELLOW, Courtship of Miles Standish, ix, line 48 Cherub, — There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack, C, DIBDIN, Poor Jack, st, 2 Chess-board, — We called the chess-board white, — we call it black,... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...come down below ; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That providence takes us in tow : For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I said... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...that come down below ; And many fine things that proved clearly to me That providence takes us in tow; For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I said... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 394 pages
...hummed over Dibdin's chario MoiUay, I .... iTth Aug. tenshc air : — " They say there 'sa Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Tn«day, The weather had been very gentle all night, and, about four in the iiihAug. morning Of tne... | |
 | 1915 - 416 pages
...come down below; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow: "For," says he, "do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!" I said... | |
 | Mary Rogers Bangs - 1912 - 242 pages
...standing decorously on the top shelf of the dresser. "And I'll make my f ortune-0, and here 's to < The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' " " What ails you, Scot ? You 're as wild as a cat in a thunderstorm." " What 's the odds so long as... | |
 | Flora Annie Webster Steel - 1912 - 402 pages
...forgot that he was King in sound, dreamless, boyish sleep. CHAPTER II "There's a sweet little cherub who sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack!" IN truth, Babar needed such a cherub in the first days of his King-ship, for Kasim and Hussan, his... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 248 pages
...sailor at the helm, who hummed over Dibdin's characteristic air : — ' They say there 'sa Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' The weather had been very gentle all night, and, Tuesday, about four in the morning of the 18th, the... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 432 pages
..."For," says he, "do you mind me, let storms2 e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback ; There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack." I said to our Poll — for, you see, she would cry, When last we weighed anchor for sea — "What argufies... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
