No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armour's clang, or war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the day-break from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge here, Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing, Shouting clans or squadrons stamping. XXXII. She paused-then, blushing, led the lay SONG CONTINUED. Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done, Bugles here shall sound reveillie. Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; XXXIII. The hall was clear'd-the stranger's bed His standard falls, his honour's lost. Again his soul he interchanged With friends whose hearts were long estranged. They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, And doubt distracts him at the view, XXXIV. At length, with Ellen in a grove, She listen'd with a blush and sigh, His suit was warm, his hopes were high. The phantom's sex was changed and gone, With darken'd cheek and threatening eyes, To Ellen still a likeness bore.- The hearth's decaying brands were red, He rose, and sought the moonshine pure. XXXV. The wild rose, eglantine, and broom, While thus he communed with his breast: "Why is it at each turn I trace I'll turn to rest, and dream no more." END OF CANTO THE FIRST. NOTES TO CANTO FIRST. Note I. -The heights of Uam-var, And round that cavern where 'tis told A giant made his den of old.-St. IV. p. 3. Ua-var, as the name is pronounced, or more properly Uaigh-mor, is a mountain to the north-east of the village of Callender, in Menteith, deriving its name, which signifies the great den, or cavern, from a sort of retreat among the rocks on the south side, said, by tradition, to have been the abode of a giant. In latter times it was the refuge of robbers and banditti, who have been only extirpated within these forty or fifty years. Strictly speaking, this strong hold is not a cave, as the name would imply, but a sort of small inclosure, or recess, surrounded with large rocks and open above head. It may have been originally designed as a toil for deer, who might get in from the outside, but would find it difficult to return. This opinion prevails among the old sportsmen and deer-stalkers in the neighbourhood. Note II. Two dogs of black St. Hubert's breed, Unmatch'd for courage, strength, and speed.-St. VII. p. 5. "The hounds which we call Saint Hubert's hounds, are commonly all blacke, yet neuertheless, their race is so mingled at these days, that we find them of all colours. These are the hounds which the abbots of St. Hubert haue always kept some of their race or kind, in honour or remembrance of the saint, which was a hunter with S. Eustace. Whereupon we may conceaue that (by the grace of God) all good huntsmen shall follow them into paradise. To returne vnto my former purpose, this kind of dogges hath beene dispersed through the countries of Henault, Lorayne, Flaunders, and Burgoyne. They are mighty of body, neuertheless their legges are low and short; likewise they are not swift, although they be very good of sent, hunting chaces which are farre straggled, fearing neither water nor cold, and doe more couet the chaces that smell, as foxes, bore, and such like, than other, because |