The Yellow frigate; or, The three sisters, Volume 11855 |
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admiral anchor Andrew Barton Angus armour arms arquebussiers auld Balloch battle beautiful Bishop of Dunblane blue boat boatswain bonnet Borthwick brave Broughty burgh captain caravels Castle chapel Concressault crew cried Cuddie culverins dark daughter deck Duke of Rothesay Dunblane Dundee Earl Euphemia eyes Father Zuill frae gallant grey gunner Hailes hand hath head heard heart helmet Hew Borthwick Home honour horse Howard James III James Shaw Jamie Gair king king's Kyneff Lady Laird of Largo Leith Lindesay Lord Drummond Margaret Drummond Montrose mosstroopers never night noble owre pale poop poor prince replied Robert Barton round royal sail Sauchie Scotland Scots Scottish seaman shore shot side Sir Andrew Wood Sir David Falconer Sir James Shaw Sir Patrick Gray sister smile soul Stirling stood sword Sybilla thee thou tower voice waves Willie Wad wind Wynd Yellow Frigate young
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Page 227 - The king is come to marshal us, in all his armour drest ; And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line a deafening shout, "God save our Lord the King...
Page 205 - 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 topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves came o'er the broken ship, Till a
Page 237 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Page 418 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events New...
Page 58 - Cherical's dark wandering streams, Where cane-tufts shadow all the wild, Sweet visions haunt my waking dreams Of Teviot loved while still a child, Of castled rocks stupendous piled By Esk or Eden's classic wave, Where loves of youth and friendship smiled, Uncursed by thee, vile yellow slave...
Page 88 - I baud my house ; He pays me meat and fee ; And I will keep my guid auld house, While my house will keep me.
Page 429 - When a" the world's a dream to us, We'll go to sea no more, No more, We'll go to sea no more.
Page 52 - O weel may the boatie row, And better may she speed, And weel may the boatie row That earns the bairnies...
Page 98 - They fix the bars, and heave the windlass round ; At every turn the clanging pauls resound ; Up-torn reluctant from its oozy cave The ponderous anchor rises o'er the wave.
Page 289 - They sin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...