 Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and spears, and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe : From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow...  Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities - Page 240by George Payson - 1853 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 512 pages
...lurking foe : From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of brooin gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife." The dress of the Highland women was no less... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, Tlie bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling Into axe and brand. And every tuft ot broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrison'd the gleu At once with... | |
 | routldege's every boy's annual - 1871 - 816 pages
...below, Sprang np at onoe the larking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The brocken-bnsh sends forth the dart ; The rashes and the willow wand, Are bristling into axo and brand ; And every tnft of broom gives life To plaidod warriors armed for strife." The game... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1873 - 342 pages
...lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart ; The rushes and the willow wand, Are bristling into axe and brand ; And every tuft of broonTgives life To plaided warriors armed for strife." The game was up, and there was no further occasion... | |
 | William Marshall - 1880 - 470 pages
...above, beluw. Sprung np at once the lurking foe : From »hiuglejigiey their lancea »tart, The rushes and the willow -wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom give* life To plaided warrior armed for strife." West of Lanrick Mead is Duncraggan. Malise reached... | |
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