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...gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Joozee Beg was told his offer was accepted, and after giving the horse he led to another, and taking...

...changed, old manners gone ; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne : The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ! And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved...

...lady gay, The unpremeditated lay. * • * * A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, "1 And an uncertain warbling made — > And oft he shook his...

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...time Had call'd his harmless art a crime, A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, •He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, , « The harp, a king had loved to hear." Lay of the Latt Minttrd.} brated in prose as ever they had been in poetic narrative. But the new candidates...

...time Had call'd his harmless art a crime, A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, •He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear." Lay ofthe Last Mimtrel.] braled in prose as ever they had been in poetic narrative. But the new candidates...

...consoled for the loss of " old times and old manners." No matter that now, an outcast and a beggar, He tuned to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear: The river, the mountain, and the forest still remained—and, rejecting indignantly the idea suggested...

...were changed, old manners gone, A stranger fill'd the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved...

...time Had called the harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's...where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ; The minstrel gazed with wishful eye, No humbler resting place was nigh ; With hesitating...