E West Coast and the south by steamboats and rai
Dom
lady at placetostay.nl
Tue Jan 12 10:39:14 PST 2010
Ars in Allan Ramsay's Tea-table Miscellany:-- The Pope, that pagan full
of pride, He has us blinded long, For where the blind the blind does
guide, No wonder things go wrong. Like prince and king, he led the ring
Of all inquitie. _Hey trix, trim go trix!_ Under the greenwood tree. In
Gaelic _dream_ or _dreim_ signifies a family, a tribe, the people, a
procession; and _qu tric_, frequently, often, so that these words
represent a frequent procession of the people to the hill of worship
under the greenwood tree. In Motherwell's "Ancient and Modern
Minstrelsy," the ballad of Hynd Horn contains a Celtic chorus repeated
in every stanza:-- Near Edinburgh was a young child born, With a _Hey
lilli lu_, and a _how lo lan_! And his name it was called young Hynd
Horn, And the birk and the broom bloom bonnie. Here the words are
corruptions of _aidhe_ (Hail); _li_, light or colour; _lu_, small;
_ath_, again; _lo_, day-light; _lan_, full; and may be rendered "Hail to
the faint or small light of the dawn"; and "again the full light of the
day" (after the sun had risen). In the Nursery Rhymes of England, edited
by Mr Halliwell for the Percy Society,
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