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...music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand "d bairns; I gab did gape; I red rusted; . wi* BMnder ousted ; A garter, vbirk a babe kad strangled;...

...last dresses; And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rapo, Wi' his last gasp...

...i^c.]-"! am inclined to think that Goethe must have read Burn's TamO'Shanter before writing this : — " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which, heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims; Twa span-lang,...

...am inclined to think that Goethe must have read Burn's TamO 'S han ter before writing this : — " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which, heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims ; Twa span-lang,...

...midnight hags," within the walls of Auld Kirk Alloway, Satan himself being bag-piper to their dancing. " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the...

...midnight hags," within the walls of Auld Kirk Alloway, Satan himself being bag-piper to their dancing. " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the...

...music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd...cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa span-lang,...

...exceeded. I know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following: * Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light.' But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me:...