 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore « Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked, and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tarn was ahle To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 118 pages
...like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic...haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1860 - 300 pages
...presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was...haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1860 - 294 pages
...And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wf his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...dancing what cared Tam who held the candle? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 332 pages
...open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight spell Each in its cauld hand held a light : By which heroic...haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee unchristened bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, rope Wi' his last gasp his gab... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
