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... harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy . The last of all the bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , well - a - day ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and ...
... harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy . The last of all the bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry ; For , well - a - day ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and ...
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... harp a king had loved to hear . He passed 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 step at last The embattled portal ...
... harp a king had loved to hear . He passed 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 step at last The embattled portal ...
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... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes , long past , of joy and pain Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its chime ...
... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes , long past , of joy and pain Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its chime ...
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... The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And , while his harp responsive rung , " Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung . 90 95 100 CANTO FIRST I THE feast was over in Branksome tower THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL [ INTROD .
... The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And , while his harp responsive rung , " Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung . 90 95 100 CANTO FIRST I THE feast was over in Branksome tower THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL [ INTROD .
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... harp whose magic tone Is wakened by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reached ' twas silence all ; He ' meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall . a 330 335 340 345 HERE paused the harp ; and with its ...
... harp whose magic tone Is wakened by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reached ' twas silence all ; He ' meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall . a 330 335 340 345 HERE paused the harp ; and with its ...
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