| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 Seiten
...little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy...floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. The sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream'd as they... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 Seiten
...they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The good old Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock ; On a buoy,...waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surges' swell, The Mariners heard the warning bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 Seiten
...the Inehcape Bell. Bloomfald. The good old Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inehcape Rock ; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. THE FIFTH ' STANDARD ' READER. 211 The sun in heaven was shining gay, The sea-birds scream'd as they... | |
| James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 270 Seiten
...perilous reef a large bell, so suspended as to be tolled by the rising and falling of the waves. " On a buoy, in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung." Many a storm-tossed mariner heard the friendly knell that warned him of the nearness of the fatal rock,... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 Seiten
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the Eock was hid by the tempest's swell, The Mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Eock, And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The sun in heaven was shining gay — All things were joyful... | |
| Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 Seiten
...they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The pious Abbot of Aberbrothock Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy...surge's swell The mariners heard the warning bell; Ajid then they knew the perilous rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothock. The sun in heaven was shining... | |
| George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 Seiten
...it floated and swung, And louder and louder it warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous rock, And blest the priest of Aberbrothock. The float of the Inchcape Bell was seen, A darker speck on the ocean green:... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 Seiten
...did not move the Inchcape Bell. The Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Eock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. The sun in heaven was shining gay, All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream'd as they... | |
| David Stevenson - 1864 - 140 Seiten
...4 Lighthouses. Southey's well-known lines, placed on it a bell, moved by the restless waves : " As a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung." And, as tradition has it, the pirate, Sir Ralph the Rover, was himself wrecked on that very reef from... | |
| David Stevenson - 1864 - 152 Seiten
...in Lighthouses. Southey's well-known lines, placed on it a bell, moved by the restless waves : " As a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung." And, as tradition has it, the pirate, Sir Ralph the Rover, was himself wrecked on that very reef from... | |
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