 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...mor-chuis, a dim gliost standing there. The mighty lie, O Malvina ! in the narrow plain of the rock. A tale of the times of old ! The deeds of days of other years ! Who comes from the laud of strangers, with his thousands around him ] The sunbeam pours its bright... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1870 - 590 pages
...m6r-chuis, a dim ghost standing there. The mighty lie, 0 Malvina ! in the narrow plain of the rock. A tale of the times of old ! The deeds of days of other years ! 194 UAR-HOX. Wherein the hero has been laid. A phantom thin, shadowy, cold, 20 Slowly bends over... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...beholds the grey ghost that guards it, for the mighty lie, O Malvina, in the narrow plain of the rock. A tale of the times of old! the deeds of days of other years ! Who comes from the land of strangers, with his thousands around him ? The sunbeam pours its bright... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...beholds the grey ghost that guards it, for the mighty lie, O Malvina, in the narrow plain of the rock. A tale of the times of old ! the deeds of days of other years ! Who comes from the land of strangers, with his thousands around him? The sunbeam pours its bright... | |
 | Robert Angus Smith - Etive, Loch (Scotland). - 1879 - 436 pages
...persuade. Listen to me again. Let us look at " Carthon" l together. I may say, as it is said there, "The murmur of thy streams, O Lora, brings back the memory of the past. Dost thou not behold, O Malvina, a rock with its head of heath ? Green is the narrow plain at its feet;... | |
 | John Martine - Agriculture - 1883 - 436 pages
...many others of the same kind which are to be found in East Lothian and elsewhere. These pillars tell A tale of the times of old, The deeds of days of other years. The farm of Standingstone gets its name from this stone. It was evidently brought along with its neighbour... | |
 | William Whiting Crane - 1891 - 536 pages
...lonely, from watching in the night." When led by Malvina, and seated in the warm sunlight, he said, " The murmur of thy streams, O Lora ! brings back the memory of the past. The sound of thy woods, Garraaller, is lovely in mine ear." Then after giving "a tale of the times of old," he said, "I feel... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...he beholds a dim ghost standing there. The mighty lie, O Malvina ! in the narrow plain of the rock. "A tale of the times of old ! The deeds of days of other years ! " Who comes from the land of strangers, with his thousands around him ? the sunbeam pours its bright... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 344 pages
...heads of moss. The deer of the mountain avoids the place, for he beholds a dim ghost standing there. A tale of the times of old ! The deeds of days of other years ! Who comes from the land of strangers, with his thousands around him? The sunbeam pours its bright... | |
 | Joseph Arthur Gibbs - Cotswold Hills (England) - 1899 - 498 pages
...birdseye view of the quaint houses and. the surrounding country. And now we may exclaim with Ossian, " A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years !" For yonder, a mile away from the town, the kings of Mercia and Wessex fought a desperate battle... | |
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Two stones half sunk in the ground, shew their heads of moss. The deer of the mountain avoids the place, for he beholds a dim ghost standing there. 
