 That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles...  Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 203by Robert Burns - 1797Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his guid blue... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1820 - 458 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tain skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his guid... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles hauding fast his guid blue... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...lang, the thunder bellowM: That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire Whiles holding fast his guid blue... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid blue... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, (A better never lifted leg) Tam skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles hauding fast his guid blue... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...lane, the thunder bellowV That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A. better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpiton thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; VVhyles Holding fast his guW... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid... | |
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