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Page 36
Oh , mother ! come to me , for I Am cold - and sick - and verily Methinks the night
begins to fall , For darkness shuts me out from all I saw before I feel not now The
damp snow falling on my brow , And sure the cold has left this stone , Where I ...
Oh , mother ! come to me , for I Am cold - and sick - and verily Methinks the night
begins to fall , For darkness shuts me out from all I saw before I feel not now The
damp snow falling on my brow , And sure the cold has left this stone , Where I ...
Page 37
... by families of the poorest class of day . sunmits of the green pastoral hills .
labourers who found work among the During such a sunshiny hour , the distant
farms , and at night returned lonely cottage on the waste seems to to dwellings
which ...
... by families of the poorest class of day . sunmits of the green pastoral hills .
labourers who found work among the During such a sunshiny hour , the distant
farms , and at night returned lonely cottage on the waste seems to to dwellings
which ...
Page 38
... on Saturday - night they were , every min her uncorrupted heart . pute ,
expecting to hear at the latch The father rose from ... the hand of their only
daughter , a went to the door to look out into the maiden of about fifteen years ,
who was night .
... on Saturday - night they were , every min her uncorrupted heart . pute ,
expecting to hear at the latch The father rose from ... the hand of their only
daughter , a went to the door to look out into the maiden of about fifteen years ,
who was night .
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I know not master ' s house , soon as the rim of the why it is , husband , but this
night great moon was seen by her eyes , that my heart warms toward her beyond
had been long anxiously watching it usual . The moon and stars are at from the ...
I know not master ' s house , soon as the rim of the why it is , husband , but this
night great moon was seen by her eyes , that my heart warms toward her beyond
had been long anxiously watching it usual . The moon and stars are at from the ...
Page 41
I they looked up in his face , and set do not like the night , ” said William - off to
scour the moor , he almost bethere will be a fresh fall of snow soon , lieved that
they knew his meaning ar the witch of Glen Scrae is a liar , ( and it is probable
they ...
I they looked up in his face , and set do not like the night , ” said William - off to
scour the moor , he almost bethere will be a fresh fall of snow soon , lieved that
they knew his meaning ar the witch of Glen Scrae is a liar , ( and it is probable
they ...
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