...curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. 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, 10 The rushes and the willow- wand...

...curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. 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 1 gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are...

...points of the compass, reminding me of Sir Roderick Dhu's warriors arising as if from the earth : " On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; At once with full five hundred men, As it the yawning hill to Heaven, A subterranean host had given."...

...curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below,...bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling into ax and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior...

...copse4 and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprang up at once the 'lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken6 bush sends forth the dart. The rushes and the willow-wand Are 'bristling into axe and brand,...

...we." — WORDSWORTH. 4. Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. — EMERSON. 5. On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. —SCOTT. 6. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too. — COLERIDGE. 7. The world...

...curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below,...lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, IX. The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives...

...oppose our landing. It was a most literal rendering of Scott's scene in ' The Lady of the Lake ' : ' On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven...

...curlieu, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows; On right, on left, above, below,...lurking foe; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into ax and brand,...

...ambush, Lochiel gave the signal whistle, and " 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." 1 Caught in the snare they had laid for their chief, the conspirators received a well - merited punishment...