 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 páginas
...foremost, The prime of our land, are cauld in the clay. We'll hear nae mair lilting, at the ewe-milking ; Women and bairns are heartless and wae : Sighing and...green loaning — • The flowers of the forest are a' wede awae.3 1 The following is an explanation of provincial terms used : — Lilting — Singing cheerfully.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 páginas
...I've heard them lilting, at the ewe milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn of day ; But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning ; The flowers of the forest are a' wede awae." And later, referring to Flodden Field :— "Dool and wae for the order, sent our lads to the Border!... | |
 | Julia Luard - 1870 - 518 páginas
...words, until she could not resist singing them to herself: We 'll hear nae mair lilting at the ewes' milking ; Women and bairns are heartless and wae, Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaming, The flowers of the forest are a" wede awae. Her voice, however, sounded so sad and eerie that... | |
 | 1870 - 464 páginas
...I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day ; But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away. 4 At bughts, in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning, Lasses are lonely and dowie and... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1871 - 352 páginas
...foremost, The prime o' our land, are cauld in the clay. We'll hear nae mair lilting at the yowe-milking, Women and bairns are heartless and wae ; Sighing and...green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away. MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE. 1747— 1794. '"~|n*HE manor farm of Thackwood is situated -L in a... | |
 | Sarah Tytler, Jean L. Watson - 1871 - 698 páginas
...foremost, The prime o' our land, are cauld in the clay. Well hear nae mair lilting at the yowe-milking, Women and bairns are heartless and wae ; Sighing and...green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away. T MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE. 1747-1794HE manor farm of Thackwood is situated in a district of... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...foremost, The prime of our land, arc cauld in the clay. We'll hear nae mair lilting, at the ewe-milking; Women and bairns are heartless and wae; Sighing and...loaning; The flowers of the forest are a' wede awae. HANNAH MORE. 1744—1833. KINDNESS IN SMALL THINGS. O LOVE divine! sole source of Charity! More dear... | |
 | 1872 - 638 páginas
...foremost, The prime o' our land, are cauld in the clay. We hear nae mair lilting at our yowe-milking, Women and bairns are heartless and wae ; Sighing and...green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a' wedo away. MY SHEEP I NEGLECTED. Sm GILBERT ELLIOT, BART., BORN 1729. He was educated for the Scottish... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 páginas
...see Bell's face ; for as she sang the last verse — " We hear nae mair lilting at our ewe-milking ; Women and bairns are heartless and wae ; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away." — there was a sort of indistinctness in her notes ; and when the... | |
 | William Black - 1872 - 328 páginas
...see Bell's face ; for as she sang the last verse — " We hear nae mair lilting at our ewe-milking ; Women and bairns are heartless and wae ; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away, " — there was a sort of indistinctness in her voice ; and when the... | |
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Dool and wae for the order, sent our lads to the Border, The English for ance, by guile wan the day ; The flowers of the forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land are cauld in the clay. We'll hear nae mair lilting, at the ewe milking... 
