Lady of the LakeEducational publishing Company, 1909 - 204 páginas |
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... dark with soil , While every gasp with sobs he drew , The laboring stag strained full in view . Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed , Unmatched for courage , breath , and speed , Fast on his flying traces came , And all but won that ...
... dark with soil , While every gasp with sobs he drew , The laboring stag strained full in view . Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed , Unmatched for courage , breath , and speed , Fast on his flying traces came , And all but won that ...
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... dark ravines below , Where twined the path in shadow hid , 185 190 Round many a rocky pyramid , Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder - splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass , The native bulwarks of the pass , Huge as ...
... dark ravines below , Where twined the path in shadow hid , 185 190 Round many a rocky pyramid , Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder - splintered pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass , The native bulwarks of the pass , Huge as ...
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... dark hues with every stain The weather - beaten crags retain . With boughs that quaked at every breath , Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft , the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And , higher yet , the pine ...
... dark hues with every stain The weather - beaten crags retain . With boughs that quaked at every breath , Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft , the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And , higher yet , the pine ...
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... dark eye , Or woe or pity claimed a sigh , Or filial love was glowing there , Or meek devotion poured a prayer , Or tale of injury called forth The indignant spirit of the North . One only passion unrevealed With maiden pride the maid ...
... dark eye , Or woe or pity claimed a sigh , Or filial love was glowing there , Or meek devotion poured a prayer , Or tale of injury called forth The indignant spirit of the North . One only passion unrevealed With maiden pride the maid ...
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... dark and grim . He bade that all should ready be To grace a guest of fair degree ; But light I held his prophecy , And deemed it was my father's horn Whose echoes o'er the lake were borne . " 445- 450 455 460 465 470 XXIV The stranger ...
... dark and grim . He bade that all should ready be To grace a guest of fair degree ; But light I held his prophecy , And deemed it was my father's horn Whose echoes o'er the lake were borne . " 445- 450 455 460 465 470 XXIV The stranger ...
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Página 108 - Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe; From shingles...
Página 109 - His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Página 108 - That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still, Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung.
Página 113 - Now, truce, farewell! and ruth begone! — Yet think not that by thee alone, Proud Chief! can courtesy be shown; Though not from copse, or heath, or cairn, Start at my whistle clansmen stern, Of this small horn one feeble blast Would fearful odds against thee cast. But fear not, doubt not, which thou wilt — We try this quarrel hilt to hilt.
Página 21 - Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done; While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not, with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying: Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done; Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille.
Página 65 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Página 39 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 152 - On him each courtier's eye was bent ; Midst furs, and silks, and jewels sheen, He stood, in simple Lincoln green. The centre of the glittering ring. And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King ! As wreath of snow, on mountain-breast, Slides from the rock that gave it rest, Poor Ellen glided from her stay, And at the Monarch's feet she lay ; No word her choking voice commands, — She show'd the ring, she clasp'd her hands.
Página 127 - Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Página 38 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!