 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
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 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, so Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...long, the thunder bellowed ; 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 ; Whyles holding fast his guid... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 328 pages
...lang the thunder bellowed ; 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 holding fast his guid... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd: yThat night, a child might understand, vThe Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit1 on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 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 1 on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...deep, and lang the thunder belThat 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 skclpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, an' rain, an' flre ; Whiles holding fast his guid... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 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, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; 4 Whiles holding fast his gude... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 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; 4 Whiles holding fast his gnde... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 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 holding fast his guid... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...rain, an' fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning (5) o'er some auld Scots t the men of lore appear, \\hicn mar our royal mirth.' But here 80 sonnet, Whiles glow'rintf round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares; Kirk-Alloway... | |
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