 | Kate F. Oswell, Charles Benajan Gilbert - Readers - 1911 - 352 pages
...Highland wight, "I'll go, my chief; I'm ready; It is not for your silver bright; But for your winsome l lady : " And by my word ! the bonny bird In danger...not tarry: So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water wraith was shrieking ; And... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 292 pages
...'ll go, my chief, I 'm ready: It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady: — 20 ' And by my word ! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry; So though the waves are raging white I 'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, 25 The water-wraith was shrieking;... | |
 | Kate F. Oswell, Charles Benajan Gilbert - Readers - 1911 - 352 pages
...go, my chief; I'm ready; It is not for your silver bright ; But for your winsome l ladv : •/ •/ " And by my word ! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry : So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water wraith was shrieking ; And... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 286 pages
...winsome lady: — 20 " And by my word! the benny bird In danger shall not tarry; So though the waves a: 3 raging white I '11 row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, 25 The water-wraith was shrieking; And in the scowl of Heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking.... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...have slain her lover?" Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, "I'll go, my chief, — I'm ready: — It is not for your silver bright; But for your winsome lady:...not tarry: So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking; And... | |
 | Henry Meade Bland - Children's literature - 1912 - 122 pages
...they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover?" Scott. "And, by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry: So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking: And... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 508 pages
...have slain her lover ? " Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, " I 'll go, my chief, I 'm ready : It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady : — " And by my word ! the bonny bird 5 In danger shall not tarry ; So though the waves are raging white I 'll row you o'er the ferry." By... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer - English language - 1913 - 352 pages
...they have slain her lover?" Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, "I'll go, my chief, I'm ready ; It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady...not tarry ; So though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; And... | |
 | Delbert Moyer Staley - Elocution - 1914 - 378 pages
...have slain her lover?" Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, "I'll go, my chief — I'm ready. It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady:...not tarry; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace; The water-wraith was shrieking; And... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 334 pages
...spoke the hardy Highland wight, "I'll go, my chief—I'm ready:— It is not for your silver bright, ID But for your winsome lady: "And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry; By this the storm grew loud apace, «« The water-wraith was shrieking; And in the scowl of heaven... | |
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I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; And in the scowl of Heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode... 
