 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny fee, To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be. " But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...path ye gang astray, Implore his counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright !' VII. But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door, Jenny, wha kens the meanin go' the same, Tells how a neehor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convey her hame.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...shears, Gars mild claes look amaist as weel's the new ; The father mixes a' wi' admonition due. * * * * But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Implore His counsel, an' assisting might; They never sought in vain, that sought the Lord aright!" But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door : Jenny wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain, that sought the Lord aright ! " But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny fee, To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be. " But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright ! " But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, * Fire. f By and by. J Heedful, cautious. ยง Fine, handsome. || Sadly, sorely. f Inquires. **... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright '. But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...Implore his counsel and assisting might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!" VI1 But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er tho moor. To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...path ye gang astray, Implore his counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought cks each thought chain'd down by coward art, o full day the latent same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother... | |
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But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek... 
