 | 1866 - 396 sider
...For he's baith leal and true. Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue, His breath's like caller air ; His very foot has music in't, As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again, And will I hear him speak ? I'm dounricht dizzy with the thocht, In... | |
 | 1867 - 174 sider
...thought; In troth I'm like to greet. Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue ; His breath's like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. For there's nae luck about the house, There is nae luck at a', There's little pleasure in the house,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...LONGFELLOW. Fire of Driftwood. RETURIf. SAE true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 sider
...Colin fared 35 When he was far awa? Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair — 40 And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 500 sider
...a fishy pattern of soles and dabs up the stair carpet. The good wife in the Scotch song says — " His very foot has music in't, As he comes up the stair." If there was any music in mine, it was in the stump, which played a sort of "Dead March in Saul," up... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 sider
...Colin fared When he was far awa? Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair — And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought,... | |
 | David Herd - 1870 - 328 sider
...Colin far"d When he's been* far awa Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech His breath like cauler air His very foot has Music in't As he comes up the stair And shall I see his face again And shall I hear him speak I'm down right giddy wi' the thought In troth... | |
 | David Herd, Sidney Gilpin - 1870 - 324 sider
...Colin far'd When he's been* far awa Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech His breath like cauler air His very foot has Music in't As he comes up the stair And shall I see his face again And shall I hear him speak I'm down right giddy wi' the thought In troth... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1870 - 428 sider
...her love breathes forth — • " Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue ; His breath like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair." And the love which thus colours with its radiant tints the common things of this life, which makes... | |
 | 1870 - 462 sider
...neat and clean, Gar ilka thing look braw, For wha can tell how Colin fared 35 When he was far awa'? His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair— 40 And will I see his face again ? . ' And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought,... | |
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Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet! 
