 Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring...  The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Page 177by Sir Walter Scott - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams i — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver...war, That up the lake comes winding far ' To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! ***** No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread, and armour's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance, The sun's retiring beams ? —I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's...of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 pages
...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! * * * * * No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread, and... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pages
...The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wavo o'«r the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! ***** No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread, and armour's... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 pages
...feel, For their chief's crimes, avenging steel. J see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's argent star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far. Down, down, cried Mar, your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe ! Like reed before the tempest's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1838 - 268 pages
...it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring heams? — I see the dagger-crest...hattle-strife, Or hard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The tun's retiring beams? I ке the dagger-crest ot Mar, I see the Moray's silver star Wave o'er the cloud...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glanée... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...recumbent posture as the array of Scottish standards is called up by the lines, " I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far. To hero bound on battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, T'were worth ten years of peaceful life A glance at... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ! in Branksome tower.4 And the. Lad jc had gone to...guarded by word and by spell, Deadly to hear, and deadl bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance... | |
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