...on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellowM: That night, a child might understand, The deil had...Despising wind, and rain, and fire Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet ; Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet -, Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent...

...rattling show'rs rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand,...hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better neve* lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles hauding...

...rattlin show'rs rose on the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud , deep , and lang , the thunder bellow'd , That night , a child might understand , The deil had business on his hand. , « Before him Doon pours all his floods ; The doubling storm roars through the woods ! The lightnings...

...on the blast ; The speedy gleam the darkness swallowed, Loud, deep, and lung the thunder hellowed ; That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand '. Tom o' Shunter. LONG was it before any of the astonished spectators opened their lips. The shock...

...rattling showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand,...mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid blue bonnet ; Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scot's sonnet ; Whiles glowring...

...bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deilhad business on his hand. • '"• • .• 'I Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never...thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; t •• / Whiles hauding fast his guid blue bonnet ; Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet)...

...rattling show'rs rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd. That night a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand." Fatigued as I was, I preferred resting on Joseph's coffin to again entering the heart-sickening chamber...

...this might give rise to these admirable lines of that bard, about to be ushered into the world : — " That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand." It was a little before the now pensive and thoughtful Burns was given to iinilcrstiind that a son was...

...this might give rise to these admirable lines of that bard, about to be ushered into the world : — " That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand." It was a little before the now pensive and thoughtful Burns was given to understand that a son was...

...rattlin showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand...mare, Meg, (A better never lifted leg) Tam skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles hauding fast his guid blue bonnet...