 I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood! ' It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 147by Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 628 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes1 in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood 1 ' It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 630 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she 'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes1 in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood 1 ' . It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came... | |
 | George Gunn - Church buildings - 1901 - 246 pages
...suddenly perished, and the bereaved mother utters the daring wish that the wind may never cease— " Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood." And lo, It fell about the Martinmas When nights are lang and mirk, The carline s wife's three sons... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 436 pages
...Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! ' VOL? III. It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang...carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o1 the birk. VI It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1902 - 538 pages
...came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. "I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes' in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood." It fell about the Martinmass,8 When nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife's three sons came hame, And their hats... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Ballads, English - 1902 - 436 pages
...to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. IV ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! ' VOL. in. x v It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three... | |
 | James Pinckney Kinard - Ballads, English - 1902 - 138 pages
...to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. 4. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood." 5. It fell about the Martinmass, When nights were lang and mirk, The carlin wife's three sons came... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - English language - 1903 - 408 pages
...cam' tp the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me,...the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline's wife's three sons cam' hame, And their hats were o' the birk. But at the gates o' Paradise,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 468 pages
...came to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In...blood." It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are long and mirk, 1 Yielding. The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 466 pages
...came to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In...blood." It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are long and mirk, 1 Yielding. BALLAD POETRY 151 The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats... | |
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