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... An old head-man in Pondoland, when told of the Queen's death, thought for a moment, and then said, I shall look in the sky to-night for a new star. While on a visit to a farm at Juniper Green on Thursday afternoon, Robert Young, late manager of Hailes ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1901
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A TERRIBLE TALE

... A TERRIBLE TALE. -- Is a darkened garret, 'twixt earth and sky, (the night last week- -ten o'clock nigh-- A man sat groaning in wild despair, Wringing his hands and tearing his hair. A table, two chairs, and a looking glass, A book, a pips, and a bottle ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1903
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HAWIOK

... along be east anxious glances now and then op at overcast sky. Ti,. rain had entirely ceased but the wind blew gale, the bla aloud* Wadded wildly beton, it over the stoney sky ♦ . naety night Iha yoting men cold and raw and bleak for lay dear girl to ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1903
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1636 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATTENDANCE NOTICE. MR Aitkkn, of the District Institute, 8 Market Street, Galashiels, attends as under, and ..

... Cheat our poor soul* good Thou hast designed : Choose for us, ! Thy wisdom ia unerring, are fools and blind. So from our sky the night shall furl her shadows. And day pour gladness through hia golden gate*; Our rougu path leads to flower enamelled meadows ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1906
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 222 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

... 'At a Casino: The night was scented like a peach, The balustrade was cold to touch: The words that linked us. each to each, Expressed too little—or too much! The music sobbed beneath the trees That soared into a purple sky; On nights so delicate.s these ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1909
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2243 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HAWICK RESIDENT WITHDRAWS NOTHING

... stars by night, and still undiscovered. That was the mole thought that dieturbed him for a time, until strange news came to him, and changed one* more the current of his life. On a hot and breathless night towards the end of May—too hot a night for the ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1911
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2425 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOVING ECHOES

... like eangs of birds, Are for ever echoing. Look for the fragrant roses. Not for the thorns and weeds, For the crimson sky. when night ie nigh, And the golden sun recedes. Glietens the Starry Dipper. Sparkles the Milky Way. Through midnight trees the clear ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1911
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... imprisoned for the rest of her natural life, and the request that a bill be passed so that there should be no clouds in the sky at night to obstruct the light of the moon when it was supposed to save the lighting of the street lamps, created hearty laughter ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1911
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1859 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ileathe

... the Spring Shall hist It Usmd with Winter's icy bars. But stiU •*•>. aid the t-kaid is always light. The sUrs are in the sky all night. And d»t js-st a nows they wbicli hide the liright Creen heart oi S|»ring. Nut all of life i* dreamel away In Summer ski>-a ...

THE OLD AtIH TREE

... That Ash so move will time befriend, in coo• shine or i 6 stares, No longer will its magic filter sweetly through the sky. List night, from 'monist the branches, carols floated through the air; Earth shuddered, ere beneath the stet., the landmark prostrate ...

Published: Friday 14 October 1921
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1922 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE PAGEANT OF THE SUN

... is week And • flood of glory waiting till the son goes down to rest; While • million jewels send their light into the sky, Bidding night delay bey coming till the pageant passes by. Thro, • gleaming, fiery archway, in his glitter. lag array, Down • road ...

Published: Friday 17 November 1922
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Something for Somebody. | BALANCE. ?C* FEAR more tho coming years X What they may bring will bo nights bei-elt

... X What they may bring will bo nights bei-elt o» stars Mayhap the brightest blosaoniH of the Spring Shall first bound with Winter's icy bars. But still beyond the cloud is always light. The stars are in the sky all night. And deepest snows are they which ...