The Lay of the Last Minstrel: a Poem: In Six CantosD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 92 pages |
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... ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride : Alike to him was tide , or time , Moonless midnight , or matin prime : Steady of heart , and stout of hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ...
... ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride : Alike to him was tide , or time , Moonless midnight , or matin prime : Steady of heart , and stout of hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ...
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... ride on a Border foray : * Other prayer can I none ; So speed me my errand , and let me begone . " VII . Again on the Knight looked the Churchman old , And again he sighed heavily ; For he had himself been a warrior bold , And fought in ...
... ride on a Border foray : * Other prayer can I none ; So speed me my errand , and let me begone . " VII . Again on the Knight looked the Churchman old , And again he sighed heavily ; For he had himself been a warrior bold , And fought in ...
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... riding the northern light . IX . By a steel - clenched postern door , They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars , lofty , and light , and small ; The key - stone , that locked each ribbed aisle ...
... riding the northern light . IX . By a steel - clenched postern door , They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars , lofty , and light , and small ; The key - stone , that locked each ribbed aisle ...
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... ride at her command The trysting place was Newark Lee . Wat of Harden came thither amain , And thither came John of Thirlestaine , And thither came William of Deloraine ; They were three hundred spears and three . Through Douglas - burn ...
... ride at her command The trysting place was Newark Lee . Wat of Harden came thither amain , And thither came John of Thirlestaine , And thither came William of Deloraine ; They were three hundred spears and three . Through Douglas - burn ...
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... ride : * He thought not to search or staunch the wound , Until the secret he had found . IX . The iron band , the iron clasp , Resisted long the elfin grasp ; For when the first he had undone , It closed as he the next begun . Those ...
... ride : * He thought not to search or staunch the wound , Until the secret he had found . IX . The iron band , the iron clasp , Resisted long the elfin grasp ; For when the first he had undone , It closed as he the next begun . Those ...
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