 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...heroic Tarn was 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 his gab did gape j Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted j Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a bab... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's...his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife,... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...upon the haly table, A murd'rer's hanes in gibbet airns ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd hairns 5 A thief new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a habe had strangled, A knife, a father's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light.— By which, heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's...gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled, A knife, a father's... | |
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lung, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a babe had strangled ; A knife a father's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pages
...did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...table, A murderocs banes in gibbet airns : Twa span-long, wee, unehristen'd bairns ; A thief, new eutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomabawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five seymitars, wi' murder erusted ; A garter, whieh a babe had strangled... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pages
...heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-Iang, wee unchristen'd bairns ; A thief new-cutted frae...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...table, A murderer'!! banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a bade had strangled; A knife,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's...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,... | |
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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... 
