 | Svenska akademien - 1912 - 528 páginas
...tre drunknade söner, som komma igen med grönt björklöf i hatten, fast det är Mårtenmässtid. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gate of Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. Modern ger icke akt på det löfvet, hon gläds och hon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 páginas
...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...the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. / " Blow up the fire, my maidens ! " Bring water from the well ! " For a' my house shall feast this... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 páginas
...cease, " Nor fishes 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...the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. " Blow up the fire, my maidens ! " Bring water from the well ! " For a1 my house shall feast this night,... | |
 | Scott - 1821 - 516 páginas
...cease, " Nor fishes 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...the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. 8 MINSTRELSY OF " Blow up the fire, my maidens ! " Bring water from the well ! " For a' my house shall... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 páginas
...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...birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in any slieugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair enough. " Blow up the fire my maidens,... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 páginas
...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...birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in any sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. " Blow up the fire, my maidens,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 páginas
...cease,t Nor fishes? 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...But at the gates o' Paradise. That birk grew fair eneugh.ll 1 The notion. that the souls of the blraed wear farlandi. lecmi to lie of Jewish origin.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 386 páginas
...nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sous came hame.. And their hats were o' the hirk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony...But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.3 1 The sense of this verse is obscure, owing, probably, to corrup. tion by reciters. It would... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 páginas
...Nor fishes ' in the flood, Till my three sons come hanie to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! " — It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang...the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. J ' The tense of this »erse is obscure, owing, probably, to cor""pUoo by reciter*. It would appear... | |
 | Richard John King - 1840 - 128 páginas
...again in "The Wife of Usher's Well"— " It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirkj The Carline wife's three sons came hame And their...nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates of Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh." The mode of access again to these regions was full of difficulties... | |
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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. 
