The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . t know his fathers friend, And learn to face his foes : The boy is ripe to look on war; I saw him draw a cross-bow his true arrow struck afar The ravens nest upon the cliff:The red cross on a Southern breastIs broader than the ravens nest:Thou, Whitslade, shall teach him his weapon to wield,And oer him hold his fathers shield. XIV. Well may you think the wily page Cared not to face the Ladye sage. He counterfeited childish fear. And shrieked, and shed full many a tear, And moaned, and plained in
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . t know his fathers friend, And learn to face his foes : The boy is ripe to look on war; I saw him draw a cross-bow his true arrow struck afar The ravens nest upon the cliff:The red cross on a Southern breastIs broader than the ravens nest:Thou, Whitslade, shall teach him his weapon to wield,And oer him hold his fathers shield. XIV. Well may you think the wily page Cared not to face the Ladye sage. He counterfeited childish fear. And shrieked, and shed full many a tear, And moaned, and plained in manner wild. The attendants to the Ladye told,Some fairy, sure, had changed the child. That wont to be so free and wrathful was the noble dame;She blushed blood-red for very shame : Hence ! ere the clan his faintness view ;Hence with the weakling to Buccleuch ! —Watt Tinlinn, thou shalt be his guideTo Rangleburns lonely side. —Sure, some fell fiend has cursed our coward should eer be son of mine ! A heavy task Watt Tinlinn had,To guide the counterfeited 32 SCOTTS POETICAL WORKS.
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