 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 548 pages
...the taste of the Lady of the Lute, by preserving the verses, simple and even rude as they are : — " Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 546 pages
...rude as they are : — " Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The eun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Domestic fiction - 1853 - 338 pages
...wonder he is not ashamed to parade his music considering whence it is derived." CHAPTER IX. Ah I connty Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower. The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who thrilled all day,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1854 - 552 pages
...Philip. ' I wonder he is not ashamed to parade his music, considering whence it is derived.' CHAPTER IX. Ah! county Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay, who thrilled all day,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 pages
...even rude as they are. " Ah ! County Guy, the hour n nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits husb'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 444 pages
...broken. Lay of the Little John de Saintre. 1823. FROM QUENTIN DURWARD. (1.) — SONQ — COUNTY GUY. AH ! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left...bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who trilled all day, Sits hushed his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 372 pages
...lances be broken. Lay of the Little John de Saintre. FROM QUENTIN DURWARD. (1.) SONG— COUNTY GUY. AH ! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left...bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. COUNTY GUY. Sir WALIEE SCOTT, born 1771, dicd 1832. 0 COUNTY GUY, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the...bower, The breeze is on the sea ; The lark, his lay who trill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour : But... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...only by thine own, And that will say — believe it. COUNTY GUY. Sir WAtTBB Scora.] [Italian Air. O County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the...bower, The breeze is on the sea ; The lark, his lay who trill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour : But... | |
 | Hercules Robinson - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1858 - 278 pages
...burgomaster poetical. " Ah ! Country Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the sea ; The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea ; The lark his lay who trilled all day, Sits still his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flow'r all know the hour, But... | |
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The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But where is County Guy? The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born... 
