 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
 | Henry Arthur Kellow - 1911 - 144 pages
...lang the thunder bellowed ; That night, a child might understand, The De'il 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd • That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. ly — 80 Tam skclpit ' on thro' dub 2 and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire ; Whiles holding fast... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 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, — 80 Tam skelpit16 on thro' dub17 and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire; Whiles holding fast... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 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, — 80 Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 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, — 80 Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire ; Whiles holding fast his... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 996 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 blue... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...lang the thunder bellowed : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. after pain. CHORUS Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Dispising wind and rain and fire ; Whiles holding fast his guid blue... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd • That night, a child might understand, The Deu had business on his hand. my s — So Tarn skelpit l on thro' dub * and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire ; Whiles holding fast... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 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 haulding fast his gude blue... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1002 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 through dub and mire, •Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his... | |
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