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Shetland Fireside Tales: The Hermit of Trosswickness. Second Edition George Stewart No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 173 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 125 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 23 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 1 - Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego, All earth-born cares are wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 9 - Were made a living thing, and wore thy shape. I saw thee, and the passionate heart of man Entered the breast of the wild-dreaming boy. And from that hour I grew — what, to the last I shall be — thine adorer! Well, this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that, by the winter hearth Old gossips tell — how maidens sprung from kings Have...
Page 145 - A LIFE on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Like an eagle caged, I pine On this dull, unchanging shore: Oh!
Page 226 - The belief that witches and wizards came from the coast of Norway disguised as seals, was entertained by many of the Shetland peasantry even so late as the beginning of the present century...
Page 89 - Da twal, da twal aposels, Da eleven, da eleven evengelists, Da ten, da ten commanders, Da nine da brazen sheeners, Da eicht da holy waters, Da seven starns i' da heavens, Da six creation mornins, Da five da tumblers o...
Page 107 - E'en drowned himself amang the nappy; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes winged their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious.
Page 86 - Mar's year did desire, Because he gat the toom dish thrice He heaved them on the fire In wrath that night. Wi' merry sangs, and friendly cracks, I wat they did na weary ; And unco tales, and funny jokes, Their sports were cheap and cheery ; Till buttered so'ns, wi' fragrant lunt, Set a' their gabs a-steerin' ; Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, They parted aff careerin