 | English periodicals - 1875 - 706 pages
...my way, muttering the lines of old Ossian : ' Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged dajs ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years,...empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.' Agreeably to the Highlander's directions, I followed the branch that turned to the left and entered... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...the land of strangers ! They have but fallen before us : for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...renowned in our day. The mark of my arm shall be in the battle, and my name in the song of bards. Raise the song, send round the shell : and let joy be... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...the land of strangers ! They have but fallen before us : for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...renowned in our day. The mark of my arm shall be in the battle, and my name in the song of bards. Raise the song, send round the shell: and let joy be... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...They have but fallen before us, for 1 Campbell: Lochiel's Warning. one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. Let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned in our day." 1 Whatever arrangement may, according... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 324 pages
...They have but fallen before us, foi 1 Campbell: Lochiel's Warning. one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. Let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned in our day." 1 , ,. ,. ., , . . , The natural... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Dumbarton Region (Scotland) - 1879 - 434 pages
...strangers. They have but fallen before us, for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the wall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers...empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield." The stories of " Cathlin of Clutha," and " Carthon and Colmal," are also associated with Balclutha... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Circuit courts - 1880 - 478 pages
...where Barry Yelverton lived. A few stones mark the spot. I thought with Ossian, — "Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days. Thou lookest from thy towers to-day — in a few years the blast of the desert comes ; it howls through thy empty courts, and whistles... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us: for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest...the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned hi our day! The mark of my arm shall be in battle; my name in the song of bards. Raise the song, send... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...son of the winged days? Thon lookest trom thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of ihe desert comes ; It howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast ot the desert come t we shall be renowned in our day ! The mark of mv firm shall be in battle ; my... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY. " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookcst from thy tower L^ OSSIAH. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers,... | |
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Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. 
