The Lay of the Last Minstrel: a Poem: In Six CantosD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 92 pages |
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... Stood saddled in stable day and night , Barbed with frontlet of steel , I trow , And with Jedwood - axe at saddle bow ; + A hundred more fed free in stall : - Such was the custom of Branksome Hall . The ancient barons of Buccleuch ...
... Stood saddled in stable day and night , Barbed with frontlet of steel , I trow , And with Jedwood - axe at saddle bow ; + A hundred more fed free in stall : - Such was the custom of Branksome Hall . The ancient barons of Buccleuch ...
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... stood , When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood . And well she knew , her mother dread , Before lord Cranstoun she should wed , * Would see her on her dying bed . XI . Of noble race the Ladye came ; Her father ...
... stood , When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood . And well she knew , her mother dread , Before lord Cranstoun she should wed , * Would see her on her dying bed . XI . Of noble race the Ladye came ; Her father ...
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... stood , To fence the rights of fair Melrose ; The buttresses of the ruins of Melrose , are richly carved and fretted , containing niches for the statues of saints , and labelled with scrolls , bearing appropriate texts of Scripture ...
... stood , To fence the rights of fair Melrose ; The buttresses of the ruins of Melrose , are richly carved and fretted , containing niches for the statues of saints , and labelled with scrolls , bearing appropriate texts of Scripture ...
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... stood by his bed ere evening close . The words may not again be said , That he spoke to me , on death - bed laid ; They would rend this Abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his XV . grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book ...
... stood by his bed ere evening close . The words may not again be said , That he spoke to me , on death - bed laid ; They would rend this Abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his XV . grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book ...
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... stood , And the priest prayed fervently , and loud : With eyes averted prayed he ; He might not endure the sight to see , Of the man he had loved so brotherly . XXI . And when the Priest his death - prayer had prayed , Thus unto ...
... stood , And the priest prayed fervently , and loud : With eyes averted prayed he ; He might not endure the sight to see , Of the man he had loved so brotherly . XXI . And when the Priest his death - prayer had prayed , Thus unto ...
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