 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 284 pages
...shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses; And by some... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...beast — A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large — To gie them music was his charge; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1877 - 116 pages
...o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was liis charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl, — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...o' beast ; A towaie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gi'e them music was his charge : He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl !— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pages
...o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirL — Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses;. And by some... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— 125 Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 328 pages
...o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl ! Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw M the ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. AMERICA. MY country, 'tis of thee, Sw — Coffins stood round, like open presses; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand... | |
 | Annie A. Longfellow - 1882 - 202 pages
...o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl, — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses; And by some... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 pages
...o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw' d the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And (by some devilish... | |
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