 | 1810 - 538 pages
...their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand : Down sunk the disappearing band ; Eacli warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; 1 1 seemed as if their mother... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...warriors feel In foemen werthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand : Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand : .Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand: Down sunk the disappearing band; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and cops« low; It seemed as if their mother earth... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1841 - 132 pages
...the clansmen of the Highland chief, when, " Waving his hand, Down sunk the disappearing band ; Łach warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood. It seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth." And thereby as effectually... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow. In osiers pale and copses low ; It seem'd as if their mother... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand : Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sank brand, and spear, and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seem'd as if their mother... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; , Sunk brand and spear and bended bow In osiers pale and copses low ; It seem'd as if their mother... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand : Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand, and spear, and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low : It seemed as if their mother... | |
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It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair — The next but swept a lone... 
