The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A PoemW. S. Orr, 1838 - 216 pages |
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... d the Stuarts ' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime . A wandering Harper , scorn'd and poor , He begg'd his bread from door to door ; B And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The Introduction.
... d the Stuarts ' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime . A wandering Harper , scorn'd and poor , He begg'd his bread from door to door ; B And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The Introduction.
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... iron door Against the desolate and poor . The Duchess * mark'd his weary pace , His timid mien , and reverend face , And bade her page the menials tell That they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity , Though born ...
... iron door Against the desolate and poor . The Duchess * mark'd his weary pace , His timid mien , and reverend face , And bade her page the menials tell That they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity , Though born ...
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... iron pent , With shirt of hair and scourge of thorn ; For threescore years , in penance spent , My knees those flinty stones have worn ; Yet all too little to atone For knowing what should ne'er be known . Wouldst thou thy every future ...
... iron pent , With shirt of hair and scourge of thorn ; For threescore years , in penance spent , My knees those flinty stones have worn ; Yet all too little to atone For knowing what should ne'er be known . Wouldst thou thy every future ...
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... iron clang sounds strange to my ear . XIII . " In these far climes , it was my lot To meet the wond'rous Michael Scott ; A wizard of such dreaded fame , That when , in Salamanca's cave , Him listed his magic wand to wave , The bells ...
... iron clang sounds strange to my ear . XIII . " In these far climes , it was my lot To meet the wond'rous Michael Scott ; A wizard of such dreaded fame , That when , in Salamanca's cave , Him listed his magic wand to wave , The bells ...
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... iron bar the Warrior took ; And the Monk made a sign with his wither'd hand The grave's huge portal to expand . XVIII . With beating heart to the task he went ! His sinewy frame o'er the grave - stone bent ; With bar of iron heaved ...
... iron bar the Warrior took ; And the Monk made a sign with his wither'd hand The grave's huge portal to expand . XVIII . With beating heart to the task he went ! His sinewy frame o'er the grave - stone bent ; With bar of iron heaved ...
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