The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . e butcher-work that there they had glided from the cell Of sin and misery. XXXIII. An hundred winding steps conveyThat conclave to the upper day;But ere they breathed the fresher airThey heard the shriekings of despair, And many a stifled speed their upward way. they take, —Such speed as age and fear can make, —And crossed themselves for terrors sake, As hurrying, tottering in the vespers heavenly toneThey seemed to hear a dying bade the passing knell to tollFor we
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . e butcher-work that there they had glided from the cell Of sin and misery. XXXIII. An hundred winding steps conveyThat conclave to the upper day;But ere they breathed the fresher airThey heard the shriekings of despair, And many a stifled speed their upward way. they take, —Such speed as age and fear can make, —And crossed themselves for terrors sake, As hurrying, tottering in the vespers heavenly toneThey seemed to hear a dying bade the passing knell to tollFor welfare of a parting oer the midnight wave it swung,Northumbrian rocks in answer rung ;To Warkworth cell the echoes rolled,His beads the wakeful hermit told;The Bamborough peasant raised his head,But slept ere half a prayer he said;So far was heard the mighty stag sprung up on Cheviot Fell,Spread his broad nostril to the wind,Listed before, aside, couched him down beside the hind,And quaked among the mountain fern,To hear that sound so dull and 86 scones POETICAL WORKS.
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