Marmion . e lock, that still amain,Fast as t is opened, shuts magic strife within the tombMay last until the day of doom,Unless the Adept shall learn to tellThe very word that clenched the spell,When Franchmont locked the treasure hundred years are passed and gone,And scarce three letters has he won. Such general superstition mayExcuse for old Pitscottie say ;Whose gossip history has givenMy song the messenger from Heaven,That warned, in Lithgow, Scotlands King,Nor less the infernal summoning ;May pass the Monk of Durhams tale,Whose Demon fought in Gothic mail;j\lay pardon p

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Marmion . e lock, that still amain,Fast as t is opened, shuts magic strife within the tombMay last until the day of doom,Unless the Adept shall learn to tellThe very word that clenched the spell,When Franchmont locked the treasure hundred years are passed and gone,And scarce three letters has he won. Such general superstition mayExcuse for old Pitscottie say ;Whose gossip history has givenMy song the messenger from Heaven,That warned, in Lithgow, Scotlands King,Nor less the infernal summoning ;May pass the Monk of Durhams tale,Whose Demon fought in Gothic mail;j\lay pardon plead for Fordun grave,Who told of Giflbrds why such instances to , in an instant, can renewYour treasured hoards of various furnish twenty thousand more ?Hoards, not like theirs whose volumes restLike treasures in the Franchmont gripple owners still refuseTo others what they cannot use ;Give them the priests Avhole century,They shall not spell you letters three ;.

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