fisher-barks

Updated: May 18, 2025

There were songs upon the river from the fisher-barks; and occasionally a chorus, plaintive and wild, such as I had never heard before, the words of which I did not understand, but which, at the present time, down the long avenue of years, seem in memory's ear to sound like 'Horam, coram, dago. Several robust fellows were near me, some knee-deep in water, employed in hauling the seine upon the strand.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

There were songs upon the river from the fisher-barks; and occasionally a chorus, plaintive and wild, such as I had never heard before, the words of which I did not understand, but which, at the present time, down the long avenue of years, seem in memory’s ear to sound like ‘Horam, coram, dago.’ Several robust fellows were near me, some knee-deep in water, employed in hauling the seine upon the strand.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

There were songs upon the river from the fisher-barks; and occasionally a chorus, plaintive and wild, such as I had never heard before, the words of which I did not understand, but which at the present time, down the long avenue of years, seem in memory's ear to sound like 'Horam, coram, dago. Several robust fellows were near me, some knee-deep in water, employed in hauling the seine upon the strand.

Edward Thomas - George Borrow: The Man and His Books