The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A PoemLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row, and A. Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1805 - Minstrels - 332 pages |
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... mutual pilgrimage , they drew ; Implored , in vain , the grace divine For chiefs , their own red falchions slew . * The war - cry , or gathering word , of a Border clan . While Cessford owns the rule of Car , While Ettrick 13.
... mutual pilgrimage , they drew ; Implored , in vain , the grace divine For chiefs , their own red falchions slew . * The war - cry , or gathering word , of a Border clan . While Cessford owns the rule of Car , While Ettrick 13.
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A Poem Walter Scott. While Cessford owns the rule of Car , While Ettrick boasts the line of Scott , The slaughtered chiefs , the mortal jar , The havoc of the feudal war , Shall never , never be forgot ! IX . In sorrow , o'er lord ...
A Poem Walter Scott. While Cessford owns the rule of Car , While Ettrick boasts the line of Scott , The slaughtered chiefs , the mortal jar , The havoc of the feudal war , Shall never , never be forgot ! IX . In sorrow , o'er lord ...
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... Cessford's heart - blood dear Reeked on dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far beneath , in lustre wán , Old Melros ' rose , and fair Tweed ran ; Like some tall ...
... Cessford's heart - blood dear Reeked on dark Elliot's Border spear . XXXI . In bitter mood he spurred fast , And soon the hated heath was past ; And far beneath , in lustre wán , Old Melros ' rose , and fair Tweed ran ; Like some tall ...
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... Cessford owns the rule of Car.-St. VIII . p . 14 . The family of Ker , Kerr , or Car * , was very powerful on the Border . Fynes Morrison remarks , in his Travels , that their influence extended from the village of Preston - Grange , in ...
... Cessford owns the rule of Car.-St. VIII . p . 14 . The family of Ker , Kerr , or Car * , was very powerful on the Border . Fynes Morrison remarks , in his Travels , that their influence extended from the village of Preston - Grange , in ...
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... arms of the Kerrs of Cessford were , Vert on a cheve- ron , betwixt three unicorns ' heads erased argent , three mollets sable . Crest , an unicorn's head erased proper . 3 216 their company, would advance great sums out of their ...
... arms of the Kerrs of Cessford were , Vert on a cheve- ron , betwixt three unicorns ' heads erased argent , three mollets sable . Crest , an unicorn's head erased proper . 3 216 their company, would advance great sums out of their ...
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ancient arms band bard Baron beneath betwixt Bewcastle blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's brave Buccleuch called CANTO castle Cessford chapel chief clan courser cross Cumberland dæmons Dame dark dead devyll Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Eildon hills English Ettricke Forest fair on Carlisle fight friends hall hand harp Hawick heard highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh king Kirkwall knight Ladye laird lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Michael MINSTREL moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er never noble o'er ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scot Scotland 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 tomb tower Twas tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warden warrior wave ween wild William of Deloraine wound XXIII
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Page 22 - In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would 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 ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen.
Page 162 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 7 - Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied: For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please...
Page 139 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 182 - Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide, If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle...
Page 192 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Page 3 - Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by .an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Page 44 - Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone...
Page 162 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
Page 161 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand...