If ever thou gavest hosen or shoon
Then every night all all
Sit thou down and put them on
And Christ receive thy soul
This aye night, this aye night
Every night and all
Fire and fleet and candlelight
And Christ receive thy soul
If ever thou gavest meat or drink
Then every night and all
The fire shall never make thee shrink
And Christ receive thy soul (查看原文)
This ae nighte, this ae nighte
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candlelighte,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
When thou from hence away art past
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
If ever thou gavest ever hosen and shoon,
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
Sit thee down and put them on,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
From Whinny-muir when thou may'st pass,
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
To Brig o'Dread thou com'st at last,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
From Brig o'Dread when thou may'st pass,
(Refrain) E... (查看原文)
If ivver thoo gav o'thy siller an' gowd,
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
At t'Brig o'Dreead thoo'll find foothod,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule.
Bud if siller an' gowd thoo nivver gav nean,
(Refrain) Every nighte and alle,
Thoo'll doan, doon tum'le towards Hell fleames,
(Refrain) And Christe receive thy saule. (查看原文)
...he had enjoyed the warnings about the evils and dangers of London, and the gift of the white umbrella with the map of the London Underground on it that the lads had clubbed together to buy him... (查看原文)
She peered down at him suspiciously, then took back her fifty pence and made it vanish beneath the layers of coats and shawls in which she was enveloped. (查看原文)
Then she walked away into the rain and the night, a round white shape covered with the names of London Tube stations: Earl's Court, Marble Arch, Blackfriars, White City, Victoria, Angel, Oxford Circus... (查看原文)
The next morning Richard got on the train to London for the six-hour journey south that would bring him to the strange gothic spires and arches of St Pancras Station. (查看原文)
Richard was never as squeamish as he thought he was. Or rather, he was squeamish when it came to blood on screen: a good zombie movie or even an explicit medical drama would leave him huddled in a corner, hyperventilating, with his hands over his eyes, muttering things like " Just tell me when it's over." But when it came to real blood, real pain, he simply didi something about it. (查看原文)
There were candles all over the Great Hall: candles stood by the iron pillars that held the roof up;candles waited by the waterfall that ran down one wall and into the small rock-pool below; candles clustered on the sides of the rock wall; candles huddled on the floor; candles were set into candlesticks by the huge door that stood between two dark iron pillars. The door was built of polished black flint set into a silver base that had tarnished, over the centuries, almost to black. The candles were unlit; but as the tall form waled past, they flickered into flame. No hand touched them; no fires touched their wicks.
The figure's robe was simple, and white; or more than white. A color, or an absence of all colors, so bright as to be startling. Its feet were bare on the cold rock floor of th... (查看原文)
