-She feels it, and her pangs are checked.1 The turf, and thought by thought was chased, Dark is the time-a woeful day! "Rights have you, and may well be bold: Hope," said the old Man, " must abide With all of us, whate'er betide.1 In Craven's Wilds is many a den, Far under ground is many a cave, Until this storm hath ceased to rave: 2 And be at once from peril freed!" "Ah tempt me not!" she faintly sighed ; But you, at least, may make report She spake and from the Lady's sight Bound on some errand of delight. -The noble Francis-wise as brave, "Grant that the moon which shines this night "Hope," said the Sufferer's zealous Friend, "Must not forsake us till the end. 1815. But quick the turns of chance and change, And knowledge has a narrow range; Whence idle fears, and needless pain, And wishes blind, and efforts vain.- She saw the desperate assault Where Norton and his sons are laid! Disastrous issue-he had said "This night yon faithless Towers must yield,2 Or we for ever quit the field. For promise fails of Howard's aid ; That he is unprepared to rise. My heart is sick;-this weary pause This night the Banner shall be planted!" 1 1836. The triumph of a desperate deed 1 Which struck with terror friends and foes Canto Fifth. HIGH on a point of rugged ground Stands single-Norton Tower its name 1 1836. They shout aloud-but Heaven decreed Another close To that brave deed * * "It is so called to this day, and is thus described by Dr Whitaker. 'Rylstone Fell yet exhibits a monument of the old warfare between the Nortons and Cliffords. On a point of very high ground, commanding an It fronts all quarters and looks round The summit of this bold ascent- From wind, or frost, or vapours wet- immense prospect, and protected by two deep ravines, are the remains of a square tower, expressly said by Dodsworth to have been built by Richard Norton. The walls are of strong grout-work, about four feet thick. It seems to have been three stories high. Breaches have been industriously made in all the sides, almost to the ground, to render it untenable. 'But Norton Tower was probably a sort of pleasure-house in summer, as there are, adjoining to it, several large mounds (two of them are pretty entire), of which no other account can be given than that they were butts for large companies of archers. 'The place is savagely wild, and admirably adapted to the uses of a watch-tower.'"-W. W. 1815. |