 | Ballads - 1867 - 638 pages
...Kiss'd them baith cheek and chin : Oh, fair ye weel, my ain two babes, For I 'll never see you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | English fiction - 1882 - 612 pages
...womankind And fair is their fause Lodie I" ' Then he induces her to elope with him on board a ship : ' She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie And the masts o' the beaten gold.' And as they sailed in this mysterious way, without wind, and without a crew, the girl grew more and... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...Kiss'd them baith cheek and chin ; " O fare ye weel, my ain two babes, For I'll never see you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | William Motherwell - Ballads, English - 1873 - 554 pages
...Kissed them baith cheek and chin : " O fare ye weel, my ain two babes, For I'll never see you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sailed a league, a league, A league, but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | George R. C. Herbert (Earl of Pembroke.), George Henry Kingsley - Oceania - 1873 - 348 pages
...in the picking-up business all the same. From Bora-Bora we started with the lightest of airs, and we had not sailed " A. league- a league, a league, but barely three," when we saw coco-nut trees growing out of the blue sea, just where Tubai ought to be. But " looking is one... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1876 - 630 pages
...Kissed them baith check and chin: " 0 fare ye weel, my ain two babes, 35 For I'll never sec you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. 40 She had not sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1880 - 376 pages
...Kiss'd them baith cheek and chin ; " O fair ye weel, my ain two babes, For I'll never see you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1880 - 774 pages
...and chin 5 " O fair ye weel, my ain two babes, For I'll never see you again." THE DAEMON LOVER 203 She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - American poetry - 1883 - 662 pages
...Kissed them baith cheek and chin : " Oh, fare ye weel ! my ain two babes, For I'll never see you again." She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could...o' the taffetie, And the masts o' the beaten gold. She had not sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When' dismal grew his countenance,... | |
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She set her foot upon the ship, No mariners could she behold; But the sails were o the taffetie, And the masts o the beaten gold. 
