Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott
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Though death should come with day.
II. 'Tis at such a tide and hour Wizard, witch, and fiend have power, And ghastly forms through mist and shower Gleam on the gifted ken; And then the affrighted prophet's ear Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear Presaging death and ruin near Among the sons of men; - Apart from Albyn's war-array, 'Twas then grey Allan sleepless lay; Grey Allan, who, for many a day, Had followed stout and stern, Where, through battle's rout and reel, Storm of shot and edge of steel, Led the grandson of Lochiel, Valiant Fassiefern. Through steel and shot he leads no more, Low laid 'mid friends' and foemen's gore - But long his native lake's wild shore, And Sunart rough, and high Ardgower, And Morven long shall tell, And proud Bennevis hear with awe How, upon bloody Quatre-Bras, Brave Cameron heard the wild hurra Of conquest as he fell. III. |
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