At length we had just one run to make before the bridal took place, And it happen'd to be in the night, yet merry in heart we went on ; But long ere he came to the house, he was turning each moment his face To catch the light by the window, placed as... The Two Angels: And Other Poems - Sida 59efter Alexander Anderson - 1875 - 232 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1876 - 618 sidor
...keep a steady look-out ahead While I whistle for the lust time;" and he whistled sharply and elear; But no light rose up at the sound; and he look'd with...something like dread On the whitewash'd walls of the eot, throngh the gloom looking dull, and misty, and drear. But lo! llg he turn'd to whistle again,... | |
| David Herschell Edwards - 1880 - 408 sidor
...joked between ourselves, he would say, in his manly pride, That the very ring of the engine- wheels had something in them of love. At length we had just...something like dread On the white-wash'd walls of the cnt, through the gloom looking dull, and misty, and drear. But lo ! as he turn'd to whistle again,... | |
| Scottish poets - 1880 - 396 sidor
...merry in heart we went on ; But long ere he came to the house, he was turning each moment his face "Now then, Joe," he said, with his hand on my arm,...turn'd to whistle again, there rose on the night a And I ruah'd to the side in time to catch the flutter of something white ; Then a hitch through the... | |
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