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When the sounds were renewed, the words were distinctly audible: "When the glede's in the blue cloud, The lavrock lies still; When the hound's in' the green-wood, The hind keeps the hill." The person who sung kept a strained and powerful voice at its highest pitch, so that it could be heard at a very considerable distance.
When the sounds were renewed, the words were distinctly audible: "When the glede's in the blue cloud, The lavrock lies still; When the hound's in' the green-wood, The hind keeps the hill." The person who sung kept a strained and powerful voice at its highest pitch, so that it could be heard at a very considerable distance.
But then there are dainty green graffs in Saint Cuthbert's kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the Castle; whereas, and behold, these London kirkyards are causeyed with through-stanes, panged hard and fast thegither; and my cloak being something threadbare, made but a thin mattress, so I was fain to give up my bed before every limb about me was crippled.
"Mony a dainty ane," said Madge; "and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate." And she sang, "When the glede's in the blue cloud, The lavrock lies still; When the hound's in the greenwood. The hind keeps the hill." "Silence her cursed noise, if you should throttle her," said Sharpitlaw; "I see somebody yonder. Keep close, my boys, and creep round the shoulder of the height.
"Mony a dainty ane," said Madge; "and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate." And she sang, "When the glede's in the blue cloud, The lavrock lies still; When the hound's in the greenwood. The hind keeps the hill." "Silence her cursed noise, if you should throttle her," said Sharpitlaw; "I see somebody yonder. Keep close, my boys, and creep round the shoulder of the height.
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