Ancient Danish Ballads, المجلد 3Williams and Norgate, 1860 - 500 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 86 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 71 - Then up and crew the red red cock, And up then crew the gray: Tis time, tis time, my dear Margret, That I were gane away.
الصفحة 23 - They robb'd my bower, and slew my knight And after that my knight was slain, I could no longer there remain.
الصفحة 69 - The passing-bell was anciently rung for two purposes : one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing ; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot, and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage : but by the ringing of that bell...
الصفحة 86 - I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day...
الصفحة 22 - ... greatness. What a fool art thou, A ramping fool ; to brag, and stamp, and swear, Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ? Been sworn my soldier? Bidding me depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength? And dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, And hang a calf s-skin on those recreant limbs.
الصفحة 362 - And whan she cam into the kirk, She shimmerd like the sun ; The belt that was about her waist Was a
الصفحة 46 - Benares and its neighbourhood determined to sit " dhurna" till their grievances were redressed. To sit " dhurna," or mourning, is to remain motionless in that posture, without food, and exposed to the weather, till the person against whom it is employed consents to the request offered ; and the Hindoos believe, that whoever dies under such a process becomes a tormenting spirit to haunt and afflict his inflexible antagonist.
الصفحة 86 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
الصفحة 86 - Tis time we were away." The cock he hadna crawd but once, And clappd his wings at a', When the youngest to the eldest said, "Brother, we must awa'. "The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide ; Gin we be mist out o' our place, A sair pain we maun bide.