 When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - 201 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1833全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Bamford, W. H. Chaloner - 1967 - 602 ページ
...the passage of his inimitable poem. " Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream -bowl, duly set, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash 'd the corn Which ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend ; And,... | |
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