Summers and Winters in the Orkneys

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1868 - 384 psl.
 

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212 psl. - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
54 psl. - Glitt'ring lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow!
213 psl. - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
273 psl. - Old Mr. Wilmott, nothing in himself, But rich as ocean. He has in his hand Sea-marge and moor, and miles of stream and grove, Dull flats, scream-startled, as the exulting train Streams like a meteor through the frighted night, Wind-billowed plains of wheat, and marshy fens, Unto whose reeds on midnights blue and cold Long strings of geese come clanging from the stars.
336 psl. - Awaked the need-fire's slumbering brand, And ruddy blushed the heaven : For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleamed on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns...
173 psl. - Remark here that these Finnmen drive away the fishes from the place to which they come. These Finnmen seem to be some of these people that dwell about the Fretum Davis, a full account of whom may be seen in the natural and moral History of the Antilles, Chap. 18. One of their boats sent from Orkney to Edinburgh is to be seen in the Physicians' hall with the Oar and Dart he makes use of for killing Fish.
146 psl. - On the 24th of June, 1596, John Stewart was tried for the alleged crime of attempting to destroy the life of his brother, the Earl of Orkney, by witchcraft and other means. The witchcraft was alleged to stand upon the pretended confession of Alison Balfour, residing at Ireland in Orkney. At the trial it was shown by the counsel for the Earl's brother, that the so-called confession of the wretched woman had been made after she was forty-eight hours in the cas/iiclaws — an iron case for the leg to...
86 psl. - Thorgrim and Gisli, were very often matched against each other, and men could not make up their minds which was the stronger, but most thought Gisli had most strength. They were playing at the ball on the tarn called Sedgetarn. On it there was ever a crowd. It fell one day when there was a great gathering that Gisli bade them share the sides as evenly as they could for a game. "That we will with all our hearts...
118 psl. - ... was alive. It was some alleviation of the deep sorrow of the beholders to see the corpse of their departed sovereign so decorated. High mass was then sung for the deceased. The nobility kept watch by the body during the night. On Monday the remains of King Haco were carried to St. Magnus' Cathedral, where they lay in state that night.
137 psl. - And sichlike before dinner and supper, there were three trumpeters that sounded still till the meat of the first service was set at table, and sichlike at the second service, and, consequently, after the grace. He had also his ships directed to the sea to intercept pirates and collect tribute of foreign fishers that came yearly to these seas. Whereby he made sic collection of great guns and other weapons for war, as no house, palace, nor castle, yea all in Scotland were not furnished with the like.

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