 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 Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 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 skelpit1 on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...galloped off merrily until he came across a strange adventure, and was only saved by his old mare. "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 ; Bkelpit, dashed on. Dub, a small... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 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, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 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 haulding fast his gl:de... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 666 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd ; That night a child might understand, The d,eil 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 Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1904 - 606 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 skclpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 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 haulding fast his gude... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 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, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 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 holding fast his gude... | |
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