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" The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... "
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. Illustr. by F. Gilbert

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...sky! A Home! a Gordon! лгав the cry ! Loud were the clanging blows! Advanced,— forced buck,— now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes, is о longer Jllount the view could bear : — " Jîy heaven, and all Us saints, 1 swear, I will not...
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The lady of the lake, The lord of the Isles ,The lay of the last minstrel ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...A home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced,— forced back, now low, How high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bends the bark's...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear: "By Heaven, and all its saints! I swear,...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced — forced...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear, I will not see it...
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Marmion. With intr., notes, map, and glossary, for the use of schools, [ed ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...flew The Bo7ii ie K ^gbt, while fiercer grew r o xxvii " A Home ! " " A Gordon ! " was the cry ; 15 Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, — forced...the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, 20 It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints,...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home I a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon stink and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With memoir and ..., Volumes 1-2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Lond were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back,...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blpunt the view conld bear : — ' By Heaven, and all its saints, I swear, May hid your beads,...
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The Standard Fourth Reader: With Spelling and Defining Lessons, Exercises in ...

Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pages
...England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The b5rder slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon ! " was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ! Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It...
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The Book of Oratory: Compiled for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and the ...

Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon I was the cry ; Loud were the changing blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. 9. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints II swear I will not see it...
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Poems. Ed., with notes, by W.S. Dalgleish

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...Border slogan rent the sky — 38 A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry. Loud were the clanging blows : 530 Advanced, forced back — now low, now high, The pennon...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints, I swear, I will not see it...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 231

1871 - 908 pages
...the vave. True to this image, he thus paints the rage of battle around Lord Marmion's standard : — Advanced — forced back — now low, now high, The...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. Then, consistently with this image, at the close of the battle the retreat of...
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