 | 1823 - 496 pages
...MARINER'S SONG. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And 611s the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant...like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leave* Old England on the lee. t. O for a soft and gentle wind ! 1 heard a fair one cry ; But give... | |
 | 1826 - 558 pages
...former compositions. We will quote one or two, which we presume are the least familiar to our readers. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...thirty-eighth year. Propcrtii vita per anno» digería. THE MARINER'S SONG. BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. I. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. О for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And white... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 pages
...beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And white... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 pages
...former compositions. We will quote one or two, which we presume are the least familiar to our readers. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the swelling breeze, And... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boysrf" While like an eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. . ****. ii *. ..' i . . . . . . - ..-!... 2. •. !J O for a soft and gentle wind, ' ' I heard a fair... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast : And bends the gallant mast, my boys, 5 While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. 1, 2. While the waves dance over the hlue (cserula, n. pl.) of the flowing (liquidus) sea; while the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dust now mine; My saul's wi' thee i' the cauld grave, An' why should I stay behin' ? A WET SHEET AXD A FLOWING SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind...Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on our lee. " O for a soft and gentle wind ! " I heard a fair one cry; But give to me the swelling breeze,... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1834 - 320 pages
...Go and get dinner under weigh, you scamp, and leave the gentleman alone. Here's more wind coming. " A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee." " Jacob," said the Domine, " I have heard by the mouth of Rumour, with her hundred tongues, how careless... | |
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A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast, And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. 
