The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, Volume 4Walter Scott, 1890 |
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Page 562 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start ? How many long^ days and long...
Page 562 - The appalled Discoverer with a sigh Looks round, to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks The Man had fallen, that place of fear ! At length upon the Shepherd's mind It breaks, and all is clear: He instantly...
Page 338 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Page 309 - Their cradle and their grave ! Still sternly o'er the castle gate Their house's Lion stands in state, As in his proud departed hours ; And warriors frown in stone on high, And feudal banners ' ' flout the sky " Above his princely towers. A gentle hill its side inclines, Lovely in England's fadeless green, To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene, As silently and sweetly still, As when, at evening, on that hill While summer's wind blew soft and low, Seated by gallant Hotspur's...
Page 562 - How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Page 562 - With something, as the Shepherd thinks, Unusual in its cry : Nor is there any one in sight All round, in Hollow or on Height ; Nor Shout, nor whistle strikes his ear ; What is the Creature doing here ? It was a Cove, a huge Recess, That keeps till June December's snow A lofty Precipice in front, A silent Tarn* below...
Page 562 - A BARKING sound the Shepherd hears, A cry as of a dog or fox ; He halts, — and searches with his eyes Among the scattered rocks : And now at distance can discern A stirring in a brake of fern ; And instantly a dog is seen, Glancing through that covert green. The Dog is not of mountain breed ; Its motions, too, are wild and shy ; With something, as the Shepherd thinks, Unusual in its...
Page 562 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer ; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes, the cloud, And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past ; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 459 - Dunscotus was a very learned man, who lived about the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century. The English and Scots strive which of them shall have the honour of his birth.
Page 310 - I wandered through the lofty halls Trod by the Percys of old fame, And traced upon the chapel walls Each high, heroic name, From him who once his standard set Where now, o'er mosque and minaret, Glitter the Sultan's crescent moons; To him who, when a younger son, Fought for King George at Lexington A major of dragoons.