The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife! That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean... The Lady of the Lake - Página 119por Walter Scott - 1926 - 238 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 páginas
...strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning bill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching...and will, All silent there they stood and still." VANISHING OF CLAN-ALPINE. (Lady of the Lake, Canto $.) " Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior... | |
| Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1872 - 218 páginas
...every tult of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle gnrrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterraneous host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and... | |
| Elizabeth Brodie Gordon Duchess of Gordon - 1872 - 440 páginas
...Bonnets and spears and bended bows, And every tuft of broom gave life To plaided warrior armed for strife Watching their Leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Short space he stood, then raised his hand To liis brave clansmen's eager band ; Then SHOUT OP WELCOME,... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 páginas
...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife ! That whistle 'garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the 'yawning...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... | |
| William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 páginas
...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1874 - 388 páginas
...every tuft of broom gives life4 To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. 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. 1 [MS.-" Tills dark Sir Roderick 1 and hl, band - , This savage Chieftain ) 8 [MS. — " From copse... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1874 - 326 páginas
...change as came upon the silent side of Ben Ledi when Eoderick Dhu's whistle — " Garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given." Even so, whereas the sun's last lazy wink had lighted up a gravelled court ornamented by torn exercises,... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 páginas
...To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison 'd the glen SCOTT. As if the yawning bill all little birds that are, How they seem'd to fill...With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like a ; Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if on infant's... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 296 páginas
...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 páginas
...every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning...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... | |
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