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... wild , The old man raised his face , and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye , With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene , the future lot , His toils ...
... wild , The old man raised his face , and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye , With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene , the future lot , His toils ...
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... wild despair . But not alone the bitter tear Had filial grief supplied ; For hopeless love , and anxious fear , Had lent their mingled tide : Nor in her mother's altered eye Dared she to look for sympathy . Her lover , ' gainst her ...
... wild despair . But not alone the bitter tear Had filial grief supplied ; For hopeless love , and anxious fear , Had lent their mingled tide : Nor in her mother's altered eye Dared she to look for sympathy . Her lover , ' gainst her ...
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... wild 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 . HERE paused the harp and with its swell The ...
... wild 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 . HERE paused the harp and with its swell The ...
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... wild and wide ; And , dar'st thou , warrior ! seek to see What heaven and hell alike would hide ? My breast , in belt of iron pent , With shirt of hair and scourge of thorn ; For threescore years , in penance pent , My knees those ...
... wild and wide ; And , dar'st thou , warrior ! seek to see What heaven and hell alike would hide ? My breast , in belt of iron pent , With shirt of hair and scourge of thorn ; For threescore years , in penance pent , My knees those ...
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... * side ; And soon beneath the rising day Smiled Branksome Towers and Teviot's tide . * A mountain on the border of England , above Jedburgh . The wild birds told their warbling tale , And wakened 60 CANTO 11 . THE LAY OF.
... * side ; And soon beneath the rising day Smiled Branksome Towers and Teviot's tide . * A mountain on the border of England , above Jedburgh . The wild birds told their warbling tale , And wakened 60 CANTO 11 . THE LAY OF.
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ancient arms band bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch bugle called CANTO castle Cessford chapel chief clan courser cross Cumberland dæmons Dame dead Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Eildon Hills English Eskdale Ettricke Ettricke Forest fair on Carlisle Fawdon fight hall hand harp heard heart highnes hill horse Howard James Jedburgh king Kirkwall knight Ladye laird of Buccleuch lances lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Melrose Michael Scott MINSTREL moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border shew shulde Sir William slain song spear St Clair steed stone stood sun shines fair sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyme theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tower Twas tyme Virgilius warden warriors ween wild William of Deloraine word wound