 The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Page 14by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass. As if an infant's touch could urge their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for,strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'dfor strife. That whistle garrison' d the glen At once with full five hundred men . As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there ihgy stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threat" ning mast Lay totl'ririg o'er the hollow pass,... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. * The speaker is Fitzjiimes. \ Koderick Dhu. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 370 pages
...life a To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...host had given." Watching their leader's beck and will,4 All silent there they stood, and still. 1 [MS.—" The bracken bush 8lioott forth the dart."]... | |
 | Alexander Moody Stuart, Elizabeth Brodie Gordon Duchess of Gordon - 1865 - 416 pages
...and spears, and bended bowg, And every tuft of broom gave life To plaidcd warrior armed for strife ; Watching their Leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Short space he stood, then raised his hand To his brave clansman's eager band ; Then SHOUT OF WELCOME,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife! That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch couid urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
 | 1866 - 408 pages
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife! That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the... | |
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