The Lay of the Last Minstrel: a Poem: In Six CantosD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 92 pages |
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... stout of hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been , By England's king and Scotland's queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to spur ...
... stout of hand , As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been , By England's king and Scotland's queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to spur ...
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... Stout Deloraine nor sighed , nor prayed , Nor saint , nor ladye , called to aid ; But he stooped his head , and couched his spear , And spurred his steed to full career . The meeting of these champions proud Seemed like the bursting ...
... Stout Deloraine nor sighed , nor prayed , Nor saint , nor ladye , called to aid ; But he stooped his head , and couched his spear , And spurred his steed to full career . The meeting of these champions proud Seemed like the bursting ...
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... stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out . XIII . He led the boy o'er bank and fell , Until they came to a woodland brook ; The running stream dissolved the spell , And his own elvish shape he took . Could he have had his pleasure ...
... stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out . XIII . He led the boy o'er bank and fell , Until they came to a woodland brook ; The running stream dissolved the spell , And his own elvish shape he took . Could he have had his pleasure ...
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... stout and true . XXIV . So passed the day - the evening fell , ' Twas near the time of curfew bell ; The air was mild , the wind was calm , The stream was smooth , the dew was balia ; See several charms for this purpose in Reginald ...
... stout and true . XXIV . So passed the day - the evening fell , ' Twas near the time of curfew bell ; The air was mild , the wind was calm , The stream was smooth , the dew was balia ; See several charms for this purpose in Reginald ...
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... stout.- Ye need not send to 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 ...
... stout.- Ye need not send to 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 ...
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