 | Tom Hood - 1869 - 292 pages
...If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. " But if the wife should...it first, God help the husband then!" The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again. "You drank of the well I warrant betimes?"... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. " But if the wife should...it first, God help the husband then !" The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again. " You drank of the well I warrant betimes... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 pages
...the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For be shall be master for life. " But if the wife should...it first, God help the husband then!'' The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, " You drank of the well I warrant betimes ?" He to the Cornish-man... | |
 | Cornish poems - 1869 - 62 pages
...life." " But if the wife should think of it first, God bless the husband then." The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the waters again. "You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes," He to the countryman said, But the countryman smiled as the stranger spake,... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, ' If the husband—of this gifted Well For he shall be master for life. ' But if the wife should...first.— God help the husband then !' The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again. ' You drank of the Well, I warrant,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 966 pages
..."If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For am Cullen Bryant Heaven help the husband then ! " The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne, And drank of the waters... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 324 pages
...Polwhele, who, as his name imports, was a Cornishman; and he added, laughingly, " What says Southey ?— But if the wife should drink of it first, God help the husband then ! ****** I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i'faith she... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...If the husband, of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man henceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. " But if the wife should...first, God help the husband then ! " The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again. "You drank of the Well, I warrant,... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
..."If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man henceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. 'But if the wife should drink of it first, u You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes t" He to the Cornish-man said ; Eat the Cornish-man smiled... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 pages
...If the husband of this gifted well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. ' But if the wife should drink of it first, God help the husband then I' The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne And drank of the water again. ' You drank of the well,... | |
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