The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . iHarmton: A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. Alas! that Scottish maid should sing The combat where her lover fell!That Scottish Bard should wake the string, The triumph of our foes to tell! Leydens Ode on Visiting Flodden. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY, LORD MONTAGUE, &c., &c., &c., THIS ROMANCE IS INSCRIBED BY THE INTRODUCTION TO CANTO WILLIAM STEWART ROSE, ESQ. Askcsiicl, Ettrick Forest. Novembers sky is chill and drear,Novembers leaf is red and sear :Late, gazing down the steepy linnThat hems o
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . iHarmton: A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. Alas! that Scottish maid should sing The combat where her lover fell!That Scottish Bard should wake the string, The triumph of our foes to tell! Leydens Ode on Visiting Flodden. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY, LORD MONTAGUE, &c., &c., &c., THIS ROMANCE IS INSCRIBED BY THE INTRODUCTION TO CANTO WILLIAM STEWART ROSE, ESQ. Askcsiicl, Ettrick Forest. Novembers sky is chill and drear,Novembers leaf is red and sear :Late, gazing down the steepy linnThat hems our little garden in,Low in its dark and narrow scarce the rivulet might thick the tangled greenwood feeble trilled the streamlet through ;Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seenThrough bush and brier, no longer green,An angry brook, it sweeps the over rock and wild cascade,And, foaming brown with double speed,Hurries its waters to the Tweed. No longer autumns glowing redUpon our Forest hills is shed ;No more, beneath the evening beam,Fair Tweed reflects their purple hath passed the heather-bellThat bloomed so rich on Needpath-fell:Sallow his brow, and russet bareAre now the sister-heights of sheep, before the pinching sheltered dale and down are yet some faded herbage pines,And yet a watery sunbeam shines ;In meek
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