StoryTitle("caps", "Sir Patrick Spens") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(73, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king sits in Dunfermline town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Drinking the blude-red wine:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, whaur will I get a skeely skipper ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail this new ship o' mine?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, up and spake an eldern knight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sat at the king's right knee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That ever sailed the sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our King has written a braid letter ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sealed it wi' his hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was walking on the strand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"To Noroway, to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To Noroway o'er the faem; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king's daughter to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T is thou maun bring her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first word that Sir Patrick read, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae loud, loud laughèd he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The neist word that Sir Patrick read, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tear blinded his ee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, wha is this has done this deed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tauld the king of me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To send us out at this time o' year ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail upon the sea?", "") ?>
PagePoem(74, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Be it wind, be it weet, be it hail, be it sleet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our ship must sail the faem;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king's daughter to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T is we must bring her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hoysed their sails on Monday morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a' the speed they may; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hae landed in Noroway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon a Wodensday. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna been a week, a week, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In Noroway but twae, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that the lords o' Noroway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Began aloud to say: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye Scottishmen spend a' our king's goud ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a' our queenis fee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye lie, ye lie, ye liars loud, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fu' loud I hear ye lie!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"For I brought as mickle white monie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As will gain my men and me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I brought a half-fou o' gude red goud ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out o'er the sea wi' me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mak' ready, mak' ready, my merry men a'! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our gude ships sails the morn.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now, ever alake, my master dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fear a deadly storm.", "") ?>
PagePoem(75, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I saw the new moon late yestreen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' the auld moon in her arm; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, if we gang to sea, master,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fear we'll come to harm.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna sailed a league, a league,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " A league but barely three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And gurly grew the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, where will I get a gude sailor", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To tak' my helm in hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till I gae up to the tall topmast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see if I can spy land?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They fetched a web o' the silken claith, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Anither o' the twine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they wrapped them round that gude ship's side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But still the sea cam' in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, laith, laith were our gude Scots lords ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To weet their milk-white hands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lang ere a' the play was ower ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wat their gowden bands.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, laith, laith were our gude Scots lords ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To weet their cork-heeled shoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lang ere a' the play was played ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wat their hats aboon.", "") ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, lang, lang may the ladies sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' their fans intill their hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before they see Sir Patrick Spens ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come sailing to the strand!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lang, lang may the maidens sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' their goud kaims in their hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A' waiting for their ain dear loves!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For them they'll see nae mair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half ower, half ower to Aberdour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's fifty fathoms deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' the Scots lords at his feet.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Old Ballad.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>