 That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles...  Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 197by Robert Burns - 1794Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1907 - 176 pages
...night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. 20 Must. a Such. a Would have. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, (A better never lifted leg) Tarn skelpit " on through dub " and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellowed; That night a child might understand The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg (A better never lifted leg) , Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire — Whyles holding fast his guid... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English Poetry Translations From Gaelic - 1910 - 966 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; dub, mud-hole. Whiles holding fast... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fin • ; dub, mud-hole. 476 Whiles... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, 80 Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business e. What fear we then ? what doubt we to incense His utmost ire ? which, to 80 Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 362 pages
...deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, spanked, puddle BURNS song staring goblins ghosts, owls Whiles... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1920 - 390 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed : That night a child might understand, The Oeil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, 8o Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire. Despising wind and rain and fire, — Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | John Drinkwater - English poetry - 1924 - 400 pages
...Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue... | |
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