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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,... "
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Including the Lay of the Last ... - Page 225
by Walter Scott - 1856 - 746 pages
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...flight, while fiercer grew Around the bame-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky Î A Home I a Gordon I was the cry Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced,...'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its sainte I swear, I will not see it lost I Fltz-Eustace, you with Lady Clare...
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First (-Fourth) reading book, Book 4

Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 pages
...still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle- yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints ! I swear...
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De Witt's Perfect Orator: Comprising a Great Number of Readings, Recitations ...

Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1872 - 218 pages
...Yet still Lord Marmiou's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...gale. When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints, I...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

1872 - 900 pages
...Scotland's light. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's lion fell ; Yet still Lord Mannion's the nigged brow of Night, "While Cynthia checks her...melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods amon nownigu. The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...! 'A Home ! a Gordun." was the' cry; Loudwere the clanging blows: Advanced, forced back, 1une taw, now high, The pennon sunk and rose. As bends the bark's...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." 14. Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious, that, for producing...
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Marmion. With notes and analytical and explanatory index, Issue 642

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 pages
...&'£**. wfcfje fiercer Aroond the baaJe-ye£L The Border slogan rent the skj- ! A Home : a Gorco:! : was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced....'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven and all its. saints ! I swear, I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace, you with Lady Clare...
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The Royal school history of Scotland

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 314 pages
...person ; the left wing by the Earls of Huntly and Home ; the right by the Earls of Lennox nnd Argyle. The Border slogan' rent the sky — A Home ! a Gordon...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes Day dawns upon the mountain's side : There, Scotland ! lay thy bravest pride...
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The Midland readers and home lesson books, Book 5

Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high,...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly swell...
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Essays: Moral, Political and Æsthetic

Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 426 pages
...the sky! A Home! a Gordon ! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows: Advanced,—forced lack,—now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bends...gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." fursuiug the principle yet farther, it is obvious that for producing the greatest...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 532 pages
...still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 30 The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon...blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now nigh, The pennon sunk and rose ; 35 As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,...
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