Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That... The British Critic: A New Review - Sivu 1411815Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 468 sivua
...a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. 10 Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the...round. * Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 216 sivua
...vault a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the...round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that... | |
| James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 534 sivua
...signal, and the hunters of Ronin, and the warriors about " Scooreigg," — all to do their bidden part. " Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the...And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Stafta round." It is a bright day's sail, worth the sailing, over that sparkling sea, before a fresh,... | |
| James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 540 sivua
...signal, and the hunters of Ronin, and the warriors about " Scooreigg," — all to do their bidden part " Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the...shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsuy, And all the group of islets gay, That guard lamed Staffs round." It is a bright day's sail,... | |
| James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 564 sivua
...signal, and the hunters of Ronin, and the warriors about "Scooreigg," — all to do their bidden part. " Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the...through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the ea,tward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffa... | |
| John Stewart M'Corry - 1871 - 208 sivua
...phenomena — the lusus naturae — we leave to the antiquarian and geologist, while we hasten on by " Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffa round." In company with our fellow travellers we however landed under the escort of Ulva boatmen, on this wonderful... | |
| John Stewart McCorry - 1871 - 214 sivua
...phenomena — the lusus naturae — we leave to the antiquarian and geologist, while we hasten on by " Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffa round." In company with our fellow travellers we however landed under the escort of Ulva boatmen, on this wonderful... | |
| David Livingstone - 1872 - 636 sivua
...my father was born. It is one of that cluster of the Hebrides thus alluded to by Walter Scott :— " And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stafla round."* Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends which that... | |
| English poetry - 1873 - 390 sivua
...stream. And thus my Christmas still I hold Where my great-grandsire came of old. STAFFA. By SCOTT. MERRILY, merrily goes the bark, On a breeze from the...round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And welter'd in that... | |
| Walter Scott - 1873 - 614 sivua
...a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. X. Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the...through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through thesummersea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group... | |
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