 THE bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was still, the water ran, No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I, At God's green caravanserai.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 678herausgegeben von - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Burroughs - 1909 - 348 Seiten
...with a Donkey," and the lines he pretends to quote from an old play kept running in my head : — 1The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was sweet, the water ran; No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1881 - 272 Seiten
..." Travels with a Donkey," and the lines he quotes from an old play kept running in my head : — " The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit ; The air was sweet, the water ran ; No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 336 Seiten
...amusing Travels witli a Donkey, and the lines he quotes from an old play kept running in my head — " The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit ; The air was sweet, the water ran ; No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 284 Seiten
...always the most faithful believer who makes the cunningest apostle. UPPER GEVAUDAN (continued'}. ' The bed was made, the room was fit. By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was sweet, the -water ran ; No need was there for maid or man. When we put up, my ass and I,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 204 Seiten
...From the green elm a living linnet takes, One natural verse recapture — then be still. XXXII A CAMP1 THE bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit ; The air was still, the water ran, No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I,... | |
 | 1889 - 680 Seiten
...under the open heaven upon terra firma, of which mention is made in the " Travels with a Donkey " — " The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit ; The air was still, the water ran, No need was there for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1895 - 376 Seiten
...stripped a pile of boughs from a balsam for the beds. Another cut the tent-poles from a neighbouring thicket. Another unrolled the bundles and made ready...this is the way it ends, — " When we put up, my ass and I, At God's green caravanserai." Our permanent camp was another day's voyage down the lake,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1895 - 378 Seiten
...stripped a pile of boughs from a balsam for the beds. Another cut the tent-poles from a neighbouring thicket. Another unrolled the bundles and made ready...the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit " — 263 but Greygown always insists upon completing that quotation from Stevenson in her own voice... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 Seiten
...not always the most faithful believer who makes the cunningest apostle. UPPER GtfVAUDAN (Continued) "The bed was made, the room was fit By punctual eve the stars were lit ; The air was still, the water ran ; No need there was for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 Seiten
...not always the most faithful believer who makes the cunningest apostle. UPPER GfiVAUDAN (Continued) "The bed was made, the room was fit By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was still, the water ran ; No need there was for maid or man, When we put up, my ass and I,... | |
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