 And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Onward they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 270by Walter Scott - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 1228 pages
...spearmen's twilight wood I " Down, down," cried Mar, " your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe 1" Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay leveled low, And closely shouldering, side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. Bearing before... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1853 - 404 pages
...shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down.' cried Mar, ' yonr lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe ! ' —...lances brown At once lay levell'd low ; And closely shonldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — 'We'll qnell the savage monntaineer.... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — "Down, down," cried Mar, "your lances down! Bear back both friend and foe !"...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — " We'll... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...spearmen's twilight wood? "Down ! down ! " cried ftlar, "your lances down! Bear back both friend and foe 1 " Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That + serried grove of lances brown At once lay leveled low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. "We '11 quell... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances clown ! Bear back both friend ana foe ! ' — Like reeds before the tempest's frown,...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide.— ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel cows the game ! They come as fleet as forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — * Down, down,' cried Mar, .your lances down 1 Bear back both friend and foe !' — Like reeds before...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — . We 11 quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel0 cows the game I They come as fleet as forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe '...mountaineer, As their Tinchel 2 cows the game ! 1 [The MS. haa not this couplet.] 2 A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...race, Pursuers and pursued ; Before that tide of flight and chase, — " Down, down," cried Mar, u your lances down '. Bear back both friend and foe...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — " We 11 quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel 1 cows the game ! They come as fleet as... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood? "Down! down!" cried Mar, "your lances down! Bear back both friend and foe !'*...frown. That ^serried grove of lances brown At once lay level'd low; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. " We '11 quell... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...twilight wood ? — " Down ! down ! " cried Mar, " your lances down ! Bear back both friend and i'oe ! " Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay leveled low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — " We '11... | |
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