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...additional stanzas, from recitation, in Peeblesshire, which are here inserted within brackets. THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was...came to the carline wife That her three sons were gana They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife,...

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...thee." 1 Wee knowe -Little hillock. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but...

...Owaenford— Part Second." The explanatory notes [marked S.] are from the pen of Sir Walter Scott. 1 THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. 2 They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carline wife,...

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...eerieness and terror of the apparition described. The " Wife of Usher's Well" may illustrate this: There lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was...to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. ****** It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came...

...THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was...her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlinewife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,...

...55 And white owl's feather ! W. Allingham 28 Lights, the Aurora *54* THE WIFE OF USHER 'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They had not been a week from her, 5 A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline -wife That her...