. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. 233. STije 3Lat)g of tfje 3Lak£. CANTO GUARD-ROOM. The sun, awakening, through the smoky air Of the dark city casts a sullen glance,Rousing each caitiff to his task of care, Of sinful man the sad inheritance ;Summoning revellers from the laggingdance,Scaring the prowling robber to his den ;Gilding on battled tower the warders lance,And warning student pale to leave yield his drowsy eyes to the kind nurseof men. What various scenes, and O, what scenesof woe,Are
. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. 233. STije 3Lat)g of tfje 3Lak£. CANTO GUARD-ROOM. The sun, awakening, through the smoky air Of the dark city casts a sullen glance,Rousing each caitiff to his task of care, Of sinful man the sad inheritance ;Summoning revellers from the laggingdance,Scaring the prowling robber to his den ;Gilding on battled tower the warders lance,And warning student pale to leave yield his drowsy eyes to the kind nurseof men. What various scenes, and O, what scenesof woe,Are witnessed by that red and strugglingbeam!The fevered patient, from his pallet crowded hospital beholds itstream;The ruined maiden trembles at its debtor wakes to thought of gyve andjail, The love-lorn wretch starts from torment-ing dream;The wakeful mother, by the glimmeringpale. Trims her sick infants couch, and sootheshis feeble wail. At dawn the towers of Stirling rangWith soldier-step and drums with rolling note foretellRelief to weary narrow loop and
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