The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces |
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... Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! XI . The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone , By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand ...
... Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! XI . The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone , By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand ...
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... Liddesdale ; For , when they see the blazing bale , Elliots and Armstrongs never fail.— Ride , Alton , ride , for death and life ! And warn the warden of the strife . Young Gilbert , let our beacon blaze , Our kin , and clan , and ...
... Liddesdale ; For , when they see the blazing bale , Elliots and Armstrongs never fail.— Ride , Alton , ride , for death and life ! And warn the warden of the strife . Young Gilbert , let our beacon blaze , Our kin , and clan , and ...
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... Liddesdale , with small avail , Might drive them lightly back agen . So passed the anxious night away , And welcome was the peep of day . CEASED the high sound - the listening throng Applaud the Master of the Song ; And marvel much , in ...
... Liddesdale , with small avail , Might drive them lightly back agen . So passed the anxious night away , And welcome was the peep of day . CEASED the high sound - the listening throng Applaud the Master of the Song ; And marvel much , in ...
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... Liddesdale , Fast hurrying in , confirmed the tale ; As far as they could judge by ken , Three hours would bring to Teviot's strand Three thousand armed Englishmen.- Meanwhile , full many a warlike band , From Teviot , Aill , and ...
... Liddesdale , Fast hurrying in , confirmed the tale ; As far as they could judge by ken , Three hours would bring to Teviot's strand Three thousand armed Englishmen.- Meanwhile , full many a warlike band , From Teviot , Aill , and ...
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... Liddesdale I've wandered long ; But still my heart was with merry England , And cannot brook my country's wrong ; And hard I've spurred all night , to shew The mustering of the coming foe . " - XXIX . " And let them come ! " fierce ...
... Liddesdale I've wandered long ; But still my heart was with merry England , And cannot brook my country's wrong ; And hard I've spurred all night , to shew The mustering of the coming foe . " - XXIX . " And let them come ! " fierce ...
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