 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!  The Visitor, or, Literary miscellany - Page 3021818Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...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 troth... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...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, In troth... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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 troth... | |
 | Marriage - 1867 - 174 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | David Herd - Ballads, Scots - 1870 - 328 pages
...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...the thought In troth I'm like to greet If Colin's weel, and weel content I hae nae mair to crave And gin I live to mak him sae I'm blest above the lave... | |
 | David Herd, Sidney Gilpin - Ballads, Scots - 1870 - 324 pages
...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...giddy wi' the thought In troth I'm like to greet If Colin' s weel, and weel content I hae nae mair to crave And gin I live to mak him sae I'm blest above... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scottish literature - 1870 - 652 pages
...true his heart, sae smooth his speech,1 His breath like caller air, — His very foot hath music in 't As he comes up the stair. And shall I see his face again ! And shall I hear him speak ! I 'm downright giddy wi' the thought, — In truth I 'm like to greet. If Colin's weel, and weel... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1870 - 428 pages
...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 poverty... | |
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