 THE lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone — alone — Dig the grave both wide and deep, For I am sick, and fain would sleep! The falcons of the wood are flown. And I am left alone — alone — Dig the grave both deep and wide, And let us...  The American Whig Review - Էջ 1021850Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Irish ballads - 1846 - 260 էջ
...standing by it, with her hair dishevelled, and shedding teai^ abundantly, chanted their funeral song." *] THE lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping; Dig the grave, and make it ready, Lay me on my true-love's body. Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors'... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1846 - 554 էջ
...left alone — alone — * Hibernian Nights' Entertainments, University Magazine, vol. iv., , flan Dig the grave both wide and deep, For I am sick, and...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping; Dig the grave, and make it ready, Lay me on my true-love's body. Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors'... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1846 - 242 էջ
...DEIRDRE'S LAMENT FOR THE SONS OF USNACH-f The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone—alone; Dig the grave both wide and deep, For I am sick, and fain would sleep. * As all the remaining pieces are by this gentleman, the repetition of the name at each is unnecessary.... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 էջ
...fatal Deirdre. DEIRDRE'S LAMENT FOR THE SONS OF USNACH. Translated from the Irish by S. FsEGDsoiT, MRIA THE lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping ; Dig the grave, and make it ready, Lay me on my true love's body. Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors'... | |
 | 1865 - 838 էջ
...quaffing the poisoned cup, poured forth her fond lament, from which we take the following verses : — " The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping: Dig the grave, and make it ready, I,ay me on my true love's body. Oh, to hear my true iovc singing ! Sweet as sounds... | |
 | lady Mary Catharine Ferguson - 1868 - 350 էջ
...sons of Usnach were then put to death, and Deirdre, standing over the grave, sang their funeral song. The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping. Dig the grave, and make it ready, Lay me on my true-love's body. Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors'... | |
 | Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson - 1868 - 326 էջ
...sons of Usnach were then put to death, and Deirdre, standing over the grave, sang their funeral song. The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...I am left alone — alone. Dig the grave both deep aud wide, And let us slumber side by side. The dragons of the rock are sleeping, Sleep that wakes not... | |
 | 1873 - 660 էջ
...sons of Usnach were then put to death, and Deirdre, standing over the grave, sang their funeral song. The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone—...wide and deep, For I am sick, and fain would sleep ! Th« falcons of the wood are flown. And I am left alone— alone. Dig the grave both deep and wide,... | |
 | 1884 - 658 էջ
...diction, is yet, we think, more melodious and pathetic, and which we prefer to give to our readers. " The lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping : Dig the grave, and make it ready ; Lay ine on my true love's body. " Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warriors'... | |
 | Alfred Mason Williams - 1881 - 472 էջ
...desperate defence. The reader will be reminded of Roscoe'a ballad, "Dig a Grave, and Dig it Deep." THE lions of the hill are gone, And I am left alone...Sleep that wakes not for our weeping : Dig the grave and make it ready, Lay me on my truelove's body. Lay their spears and bucklers bright By the warrior's... | |
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