StoryTitle("caps", "Sir Patrick Spens") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king sits in Dunfermline town", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Drinking the blude-red wine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O whare will I get a skeely skipper", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail this new ship o' mine?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O up and spak 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 sail'd the sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our king has written a braid letter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And seal'd it with 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 o' Noroway,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis thou must bring her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first word that Sir Patrick read", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So loud, loud laugh'd he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The neist word that Sir Patrick read", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tear blinded his e'e.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wha is this has done this deed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tauld the king o' me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To send us out, at this time o' year,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail upon the sea?", "") ?>
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 o' Noroway,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis we must fetch her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a' the speed they may;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hae landed in Noroway", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon a Wodensday.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mak ready, mak ready, my merry men a'!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our gude ship sails the morn.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now ever alack, my master dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fear a deadly storm.", "") ?>
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 sail'd 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("L0", "", "The ankers brak, and the topmast lap,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It was sic a deadly storm:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the waves cam owre the broken ship", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till a' her sides were torn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Go fetch a web o' the silken claith,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another o' the twine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wap them into our ship's side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let nae the sea come in.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another o' the twine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they wapp'd them round that gude ship's side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But still the sea came in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O laith, laith were our gude Scots lords", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To wet their cork-heel'd shoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lang or a' the play was play'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wat their hats aboon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And mony was the feather bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That flatter'd on the faem;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And mony was the gude lord's son", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That never mair cam hame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O lang, lang may the ladies sit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' their fans into 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 gowd kames in their hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A-waiting for their ain dear loves!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For them they'll see nae mair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half-owre, half-owre to Aberdour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'Tis fifty fathoms deep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' the Scots lords at his feet!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "c. 1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>