 | 1895 - 588 ページ
...visibility, and a prognostic of the advancing cyclone, as the old ballad-monger properly expressed it : — ' I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi" the auld moon...in her arm ; And, if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' But the portent is special to these latitudes ; further south — at Malta, for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 ページ
...! " Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! t " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld...her arm ; " And if we gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 ページ
...much white monie, " As gane* my men and me, " And I brought a half-fou f o' gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. '' Make ready, make ready, my merrymen...her arm ; " And, if we gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 ページ
...white monie, " As gane* my men and me, " And I brought a half-fou 'f- o' gude red goud, " Out o'er the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen...her arm; " And, if we gang to sea, master, " I fear we'll come to harm." • Gane—Suffice. f Half-fou—l\\e eighth part of a peck. They hadna sail'da... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 ページ
...sails the morn." " Now, ever alake, my master dear, " I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new inoon, late yestreen, " Wi' the auld moon in her arm; " And, if we gang to sea, master, " I fear well come to harm." They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew... | |
 | 1863 - 376 ページ
...foreboded. Great confidence is placed in this old prognostic : " I saw the new moon late yestreen AV'i' the auld moon in her arm, And if we gang to sea, master, I f'uar we'll come to harm." — Sir Patrick Spens. (6.) Haloes predict a storm (rain and wind, or snow... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 ページ
...it weet, be it hail, be it sleet, Our ship must sail the faem ; The king's daughter of Noroway 'Tis we must fetch her hame." They hoysed their sails on...in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 ページ
...their sails on Monenday morn Wi' a' the speed they may ; They hae landed in Noroway Upon aWodensday. They hadna been a week, a week In Noroway, but twae,...in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift... | |
 | 1841 - 956 ページ
...prognostic of a storm occurs in an ancient ballad, entitled " Sir Patrick Spens," of Scottish history: — " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon...in her arm ! And if we gang to sea master, I fear we'll come to harm." NOTES ON TRINIDAD IN 1803. — By Capt. GH Columbine, RN (Concluded from p. 593.)... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 ページ
...of gude red goud, Out o'er the sea wi' me. " Make ready, make ready, my merrymen a' ! Our gudc snip sails the morn."— "Now, ever alake, my master dear,...in her arm ; And, if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. "II They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift... | |
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Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the... 
