 | Svenska akademien - 1912 - 528 ページ
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | Scott - 1821 - 516 ページ
...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...in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. 8 MINSTRELSY OF " Blow up the fire, my maidens !... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 ページ
...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,... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 ページ
...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...in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise. That birk grew fair eneugh.ll 1 The notion. that the souls of the blraed wear... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 386 ページ
...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 sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.3 1 The sense of this verse is obscure, owing, probably,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 ページ
...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...in syke nor ditch. Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh. J ' The tense of this »erse is obscure, owing,... | |
 | Richard John King - 1840 - 128 ページ
...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...grew in syke 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... | |
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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. 
