 | Questions and answers - 1899 - 810 pages
...in his hearing as the authority, the following is the legendary weird dialogue of the two rivers : Tweed said to Till : " What gars ye rin sae still?" Till said to Tweed : " Though yo rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw. Yet where ye droun ae man, I droun twa!" See Chambers's 'Popular... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1902 - 550 pages
...can drown but yin ! " Berwickshire. • [or reed ? Wooltr.'] Till says to Tweed, " Though ye rin with speed, And I rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa ? " — D., p. 92. or, " Div ye no ken Where ye can drown ae man I drown ten ? " — Murray. " Foot... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1905 - 660 pages
...Ellachie!" Measured meaning in every syllable. Here's a bit of first-rate work for example : — " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?...Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Whar ye droon ae man, I droon twa.' " l 1 [The last three lines of this popular rhyme are sometimes... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 660 pages
...Ellachie!" measured meaning in every syllable. Here's a bit of first-rate work for example : — " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?...Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Whar ye droon ae man, I droon twa.' " l 18. You have, in these two nations, seen in direct opposition... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...cynicism is voiced by a couple of rivers, and not by man : Tweed said to Till— ' What gars ye rin sao still ? ' Till said to Tweed— ' Though ye rin wi'...rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa;' 36 or by the hoarse accents of carrion birds : As I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Rivers - 1908 - 458 pages
...with the Tweed, whose course here is very rapid, giving rise to the following quaint verses : — " Tweed said to Till, What gars ye rin sae still ) Till said to Tweed, Though yc rin wi' speed, And I rin slow, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa." We must now proceed to make... | |
 | William Leadbetter Calderwood - Fishing - 1909 - 586 pages
...sluggish nature of the stream is in strong contrast to the swinging force of Tweed at the junction. "Tweed said to Till, What gars ye rin sae still ?...I rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa ! " There are four weirs in Till, the first at Twizel being of little moment. At Heaton Mill, which... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1909 - 318 pages
...with stern and measured meaning in every syllable. Here's a bit of first-rate work for example :— " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ?...Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Whar ye droon ae man, I droon twa.'" V when I was most lamenting the absence of art among the people.... | |
 | William Leadbetter Calderwood - Fishing - 1909 - 600 pages
...sluggish nature of the stream is in strong contrast to the swinging force of Tweed at the junction. "Tweed said to Till, What gars ye rin sae still ? Till said to Tweed, Though ye rin wi' apeed, And I rin slaw. Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa ! " There are four weirs in Till, the... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 448 pages
...relief when freezing cynicism, as it seems, rather than remorse, is voiced, not by man, but by rivers : Tweed said to Till— ' What gars ye rin sae still...I rin slaw, Yet where ye drown ae man I drown twa ; ' 36 or by the hoarse accents of carrion birds : As I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making... | |
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What gars ye rin sae still ? ' Till said to Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Whar ye droon ae man, I droon twa. 
