The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . ^. Across the furzy hills of passed the glen and scanty climbed the opposing bank, untilThey gained the top of Blackford Hill. XXIV. Blackford ! on whose uncultured breast,Among the broom and thorn and whin, A truant-boy. 1 sought the nest. Or listed, as I lay at rest,While rose on breezes thin The murmur of the city crowd. And, from his steeple jangling Giless mingling din. Upon the bent so brown :Thousand pavilions, white as all the Borough-moor below. Upland,

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The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . ^. Across the furzy hills of passed the glen and scanty climbed the opposing bank, untilThey gained the top of Blackford Hill. XXIV. Blackford ! on whose uncultured breast,Among the broom and thorn and whin, A truant-boy. 1 sought the nest. Or listed, as I lay at rest,While rose on breezes thin The murmur of the city crowd. And, from his steeple jangling Giless mingling din. Upon the bent so brown :Thousand pavilions, white as all the Borough-moor below. Upland, and dale, and thousand did I say ? I on thousands there were checkered all tlie heath between The streamlet and the crossing ranks extending a camp irregular;Oft giving way where still there stoodSome relics of the old oak darkly huge did interveneAnd tamed the glaring white with green : MARM ION. 109

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