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... darkness round the pole ; The Northern Bear lowers black and grim ; Orion's studded belt is dim ; Twinkling faint , and distant far , Shimmers through mist each planet star : VOL . I.5 Ill may I read their high decree ! But no Canto I ...
... darkness round the pole ; The Northern Bear lowers black and grim ; Orion's studded belt is dim ; Twinkling faint , and distant far , Shimmers through mist each planet star : VOL . I.5 Ill may I read their high decree ! But no Canto I ...
Page 54
... dark . " " For Branksome , ho ! " the knight rejoin'd , And left the friendly tower behind . He turn'd him now from Teviotside , And , guided by the tinkling rill , Northward the dark ascent did ride , And gained the moor at Horsliehill ...
... dark . " " For Branksome , ho ! " the knight rejoin'd , And left the friendly tower behind . He turn'd him now from Teviotside , And , guided by the tinkling rill , Northward the dark ascent did ride , And gained the moor at Horsliehill ...
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... dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far beneath , in lustre wan , Old Melros ' rose , and fair Tweed ran : Like some tall rock with lichens gray , Seem'd dimly ...
... dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far beneath , in lustre wan , Old Melros ' rose , and fair Tweed ran : Like some tall rock with lichens gray , Seem'd dimly ...
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... dark Knight of Liddesdale ! * O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! XI . The moon on the east oriel shone3 Through slender shafts of shapely stone , 1 The famous and desperate battle of Otterburne was fought 15th ...
... dark Knight of Liddesdale ! * O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition , lowly laid ! XI . The moon on the east oriel shone3 Through slender shafts of shapely stone , 1 The famous and desperate battle of Otterburne was fought 15th ...
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... dark - brow'd Warrior's mail , And kiss'd his waving plume . XIX . Before their eyes the Wizard lay , As if he had not been dead a day . His hoary beard in silver roll'd , He seem'd some seventy winters old ; A palmer's amice wrapp'd ...
... dark - brow'd Warrior's mail , And kiss'd his waving plume . XIX . Before their eyes the Wizard lay , As if he had not been dead a day . His hoary beard in silver roll'd , He seem'd some seventy winters old ; A palmer's amice wrapp'd ...
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ancient Appendix arms band Bard Baron beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chapel Clair clan courser Cranstoun Cumberland Dame dead death Douglas dread Duke Earl English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest fair on Carlisle fight friends Froissart hall hand Harden harp Hawick head heard heart highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh King knight Ladye lances lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Melrose Abbey Michael Scott Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem pray'd ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd shulde Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott Sir William slain song spear spirit steed stone stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tomb tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound