 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1885 - 840 pages
...O'Daly was there tj receive her. " One touch to her hand and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door and the charger stood near, So light...swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. ' She is won, we are gone over bank, brush and scaur ; ' They'll have fleet steeds that follow,' quoth... | |
 | James W. Gousseff - 1981 - 236 pages
...word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! 'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They 11 have fleet steeds that follow, ' quoth... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1991 - 1012 pages
...silent forests that I fancied were concealed there. Chapter XII. ILL-LUCK. "One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stxxxl near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung. So light to the saddle before her he sprung!... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - 2000 - 690 pages
...crouching at one's feet. Kill ke pairan Croup, n. putthä; pura; chutar; dum-gazä. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. W. Scott. Aise sahaj mtii began pvtthe pe di bithi,. Aue .» i/i'ii men ztn pe age khud a charhi. FC... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - 2004 - 166 pages
..."Twere better by far To have match'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar. One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door,...swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! 'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that followj quoth... | |
 | Jo Beverley - 2004 - 692 pages
...the way to the coach, like Lochinvar snatching his beloved from her wedding. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung. So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! We are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow, " quoth... | |
 | Steven Price - 2006 - 400 pages
...fillies of the surge And the white horses of the windy plain. — Roy Camphell, Horses on the Camargue So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur,They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth... | |
 | Anne Gracie - 2008 - 372 pages
...to the beat of his horse's hooves. One touch to her hand and one word in her ear, When they reach 'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light...swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! She was no fair Ellen from a poem. Nor anyone's bride. Her note had told him to fetch the authorities,... | |
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One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near: So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone! over bank, bush, and scaur;... 
