Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie : For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I. Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1271859Full view - About this book
| Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 432 pages
...liar loud, Sae loud I hear ye lee ; For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. But I have dreamed a dreary dream Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I...dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." Upon this reminiscence he arms, but the delay occasioned by his incredulity is fatal to him : He belted... | |
| Augustus White Long, Thomas Marc Parrott - English poetry - 1903 - 432 pages
...Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Vale of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran; But he forgot the helmet good That should... | |
| Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 444 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and inc. But I have dreamed a dreary dream Keyond the Isle of Skyc ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." Upon this reminiscence he arms, hut the delay occasioned by his incredulity is fatal to him : He belted... | |
| William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...Scottish tale of the Battle of Otterbourne : I have dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I. 23 Everybody again must have felt both the woe and the power of the grand old ballad of Sir Patrick... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...not men yestreen, To dight my men and me. 'But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.' He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
| Samuel Swayze Seward - American poetry - 1909 - 538 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and me. ' But I have dreamd a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.' He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran, But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie ; For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. ' But I ha'e dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle...dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.' He belted on his gude braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
| Andrew Lang - Ballads, English - 1910 - 284 pages
...men yestreen, To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
| Lady Gregory - English drama - 1912 - 220 pages
...house. I had already written on the back of that portrait this verse from an old ballad: Oh, I have dreamed a dreary dream Beyond the isle of Skye, I...a dead man win a fight And I think that man was I! Dates and casts of the first production of these plays at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. THE CANAVANS was... | |
| Lady Gregory - Irish drama - 1912 - 228 pages
...house. I had already written on the back of that portrait this verse from an old ballad: Oh, I have dreamed a dreary dream Beyond the isle of Skye, I...a dead man win a fight And I think that man was I! ' Dates and casts of the first production of these plays at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. THE CANAVANS... | |
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