Marmion . IXTltODUCnOX TO. ^^ M And through the foliage showed his head,With narrow leaves and berries red;What pines on every mountain sprung,Oer every dell what birches hung,In every breeze Avhat aspens shook,What alders shaded every brook! Here, in my shade, methinks he d say, The mighty stag at noontide lay:The wolf I ve seen, a fiercer game, —The neighboring dingle beai-s his name, —With lurching step around me prowl,And stop, against the moon to howl;The mountain-boar, on battle set,His tusks upon nxy stem would whet;While doe, and roe, and red-deer good,Have bounded by, through gay gree

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Marmion . IXTltODUCnOX TO. ^^ M And through the foliage showed his head,With narrow leaves and berries red;What pines on every mountain sprung,Oer every dell what birches hung,In every breeze Avhat aspens shook,What alders shaded every brook! Here, in my shade, methinks he d say, The mighty stag at noontide lay:The wolf I ve seen, a fiercer game, —The neighboring dingle beai-s his name, —With lurching step around me prowl,And stop, against the moon to howl;The mountain-boar, on battle set,His tusks upon nxy stem would whet;While doe, and roe, and red-deer good,Have bounded by, through gay oft, from Newarks riven tower,Sallied a Scottish monarchs power :A thousand vassals nnistered horse, and hawk, and horn, and houndAnd I might see the youth intent,Guard every pass with crossbow bent;And through the brake the rangers falcners hold the ready haAvk ;And forestei-s, in greenwood in the leash the gazehounds grim,Attentive, as the bratchets bayFrom the dark covert dr

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