 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...in their last dresses And, by some devilish cantrip slight, I ' Each in its cauld hand held x light, By which, heroic Tam was able To note, upon the haly table, A murd'rers banes in gibbet airns, Twa span-laug, wee, unchristen'd bairns A thief, new-cutted frae a... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a lightBy which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cntted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; 1 VARIATION. A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1856 - 154 pages
...dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip sleight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee uuchristened bairns; A thief, new cuttit frae a rape — Wi' his last... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore « Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tarn was ahle To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
