 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. O...  Jacob Faithful - Side 116av Frederick Marryat - 1838Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1826 - 558 sider
...my boys, While, like the eagle, free, Away 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 white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship... | |
 | 1822 - 694 sider
...my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the 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 waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 sider
...bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like 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 waves heaving high: The white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 sider
...bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like 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 waves heaving high : The white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 sider
...my boys, While, like the eagle, free, Away 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 white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 sider
...ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. . ****. ii *. ..' i . . . . . . - ..-!... 2. •. !J O for a soft and gentle wind, ' ' I heard a fair one cry; '" r 'But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high; And white waves heaving high,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 sider
...boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. " O ! for a soft and gentle wind," I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 sider
...waves ; and our country lies-hid left on the lee (a Iseva parte). EXERCISE CIII. (same continued). " Oh ! for a soft and gentle wind ! " I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high : — And white waves heaving high, my boys, 5 The good... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1833 - 378 sider
...my boys, While, like the eagle, free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind, I heard a fair one cry, But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high, The white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 sider
...my hoys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind ! I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high : And white waves heaving high, my boys. The good ship... | |
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