Just at the mirk and midnight hour The fairy folk will ride, And they that wad their true-love win, At Miles Cross they maun bide.
The night it is her low lykewake, The morn her burial day, And we maun watch at mirk midnight, And hear what she will say.
There is a legend that when sorrow comes upon Scotland the old Edinburgh Castle is lit by ghostly lights and gleams white at every window in the mirk of midnight.
The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe.
The men with unloaded rifles and fixed bayonets stole on once more, their bodies bent, their eyes peering through the mirk for the first sign of the enemy--that enemy whose first sign has usually been a shattering volley.
Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron, They hae laid a' right sair on me; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon mirk and dreary.
Just at the mirk and midnight hour The fairy folk will ride; And they that wad their true-love win, At Miles Cross they maun bide.
It was as though a bird sang in themirk night, and it spoke of peace and of hope, and of joy that knows no ending.
And the mirk darkness and the sleet that drove in the teeth of the gale like bullets of ice, and the huge, irresistible breakers that threshed the shore, filled the hearts of the children of Lîr with dread.
What sign hast thou to tell thee, that the night wears into day When the heavens aremirk as the midnight?
And the kin were all departed, and no face of man I knew: Then I strove to flee and might not; for day grew dark and strange, And no moonrise and no morning the eyeless mirk would change.
O May, Thy Morn O may, thy morn was ne'er so sweet As the mirk night o' December!
Judgments, rather: judgments in the mirk nicht among the draygons o' the deep.
Is mirk and moop with gowans fine, I'll stowlins pit my unco brunt, An' cleek my duds for auld lang syne.
I think I see him getting his cloak about his shoulders, and, with perhaps a lantern in one hand, steering his way along the streets in the mirk January night.
Neither shall we journey in the mirk night; for look you, the moon yonder.
And as he looked the night-mirk now O'er all the tangled wood 'gan flow.
But so wrought maiden Else, Because of her weary mood, That she followed after own true love All through the mirk wild wood.
But scarce was midmorn on the hall, When down did the mirk of midnight fall.
On the seventh morn in the mirk, mirk wood, He saw sight that he deemed was good.
She murmured, "Each to each we two, Our faces from the wood-mirk grew.
His love follows through themirk wood (so Swedish #A# 9, cf.
The Eller Beck is crossed by a stone bridge close to its confluence with the Mirk Esk.
Below us on the western side runs the Mirk Esk, draining the heights upon which we stand as well as Egton High Moor and Wheeldale Moor.
Yes, and if you will be believing me, Kenneth, the harder part iss for those of us who cannot fight but must wear away the long days and mirk nights at home.
The mirk night shut out all others, and a fair face framed in a tartan shawl made my whole world for me.
The man was right, for, as the whaler rose on the crests of the waves, a dark, grey shape could be discerned through the mirk at a distance of about a couple of miles.
Through the mirk loomed up the outlines of a canvas collapsible boat crowded with men.
The night it is her low lykewake, The morn her burial day, And we maun watch atmirk midnight, 55 And hear what she will say.
The wind blaws cald and sour; The nicht will be baith mirk and late, Before ye reach her bower.
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