The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A PoemW. S. Orr, 1838 - 216 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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A Poem Walter Scott. And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp a king had loved to hear . He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye- No humbler resting ...
A Poem Walter Scott. And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp a king had loved to hear . He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye- No humbler resting ...
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... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes , long past , of joy and pain , Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its ...
... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes , long past , of joy and pain , Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its ...
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... lost ; Each blank , in faithless memory void , The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And , while his harp responsive rung , ' Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . CANTO THE FIRST THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
... lost ; Each blank , in faithless memory void , The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And , while his harp responsive rung , ' Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . CANTO THE FIRST THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
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... harp , whose magic tone Is waken'd by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reach'd , ' twas silence all ; He meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall . HERE paused the harp ; and with its swell The ...
... harp , whose magic tone Is waken'd by the winds alone . But when Melrose he reach'd , ' twas silence all ; He meetly stabled his steed in stall , And sought the convent's lonely wall . HERE paused the harp ; and with its swell The ...
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