 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...wile was blest like me; A kind gudeman, and twa Sweet bairns were 'round me here; But they're a' ta'cn awa Sin' the fa' o' the year. Sair trouble cam' our gate, And made me, when it cam, A bird without a male, A ewe without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was to shear, When they a' dwined... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...Nae wife was blest like me : A kind gndeman, and twa Sweet bairns were round me here ; But they're a' ta'en awa' Sin' the fa' o' the year. " Sair trouble...without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was yet to shear ; When they a' dwined awa' In the fa' o' the year. " I daurna look a-field, For aye I... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...Nae wife was blest like me : A kind gudcmnn, and twa Sweet bairns were round me here ; But they're a' ta'en awa' Sin' the fa' o' the year. " Sair trouble...without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was yet to shear ; When they a' dvvined nwu' In the fa' o' tho year. Smiberfs Widow s Lament. 161 " I daurna... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pages
...cauld, And will be caulder still. And sair, sair in the fauld Will be felt the winter's chill. For our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was to shear, When they a' dwined awa' In the fa' o' the year. SCOTTISH SONG. HELEN was spending the period of May's absence very soberly. She could appreciate one... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 pages
...water-side nae wife was blest like me; A kind gudeman, and twa sweet bairns were round me here ; But they're ta'en awa', sin' the fa' o' the year. Sair trouble cam' our gate, an' made me, when it cam', e A bird without a mate, a ewe without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, and... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...wife was blest like me; A kind gudeman, and twa sweet bairns were round me here ; But they're ta'en a' awa', sin' the fa' o' the year. Sair trouble cam' our gate, an' made me, when it cam', A bird without a mate, a ewe without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 684 pages
...our water-side nae wife was blest like me : A kind gudeman and twa sweet bairns were round me hero, But they 're a" ta'en awa' sin" the fa' o' the year....shear, When they a' dwined awa' in the fa' o' the year. ' Aft on the hill, at e'ens, I see him "mang the ferns, The lover o' iny teens — the father o' my... | |
 | David George Goyder - Phrenologists - 1857 - 680 pages
...waterside, Nae wife was blest like me. A kind gudeman, and twa Sweet bairns were round me here, But they're a' ta'en awa' Sin' the fa' o' the year. Sair trouble...yet to maw, And our corn was to shear, When they a' dwin'd awa' In the fa' o' the year. • I dinna' look afield, For aye I trou I see The form that was... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 474 pages
...side, Nae wife was blest like me : A kind gudeman, and twa Sweet bairns were round me here; But they're a' ta'en awa' Sin' the fa' o' the year. " Sair trouble...without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw. And our corn was yet to shear; When they a' dwined awa' In the fa' o' the year, " I daurna look a-field, For aye I trow... | |
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Sair trouble cam' our gate, And made me, when it cam", A bird without a mate, A ewe without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw. And our corn was yet to shear; When they a' dwined awa' In the fa 
