 | 1910
...voice he heard He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | 1912
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913
...voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And — quick as lightning — on the deck he stands....And drops at once into her nest. The noblest Captain 1n the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 816 pągines
...voice he heard He sighed and cast his eyes below; in The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl haine, 10 His lady's ta'en anithe poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear —... | |
 | Frank Hunter Potter - 1916
...mistress find. Yes, yes, believe them when they tell thee so, For thou art present, wheresoe'er I go." Ill So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill voice he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pągines
...he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear —... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pągines
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands emies of the constitution. Consider, my Lord, whether this be an extremi poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear —... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 364 pągines
...through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If...her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Mighty envy William's lip those kisses sweet. '0, Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 364 pągines
...voice he heard, He sighed and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | 1918 - 4009 pągines
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below: The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air,' Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
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So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest. 
