The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . i6 SCOTTS POETICAL WORKS. Danced on the dark-hrowcd warriors mailAnd kissed his waving plume. Before their eyes the wizard lay,As if he had not been dead a hoary beard in silver seemed some seventy winters old ;A palmers amice wrapi)ed him round,. With a wrought Spanish baldric bound,Like a pilgrim from beyond the sea :His left hand held his Book of Might,A silver cross was in his right; The lamp was placed beside his and majestic was his which the fellest fiends had sh
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . i6 SCOTTS POETICAL WORKS. Danced on the dark-hrowcd warriors mailAnd kissed his waving plume. Before their eyes the wizard lay,As if he had not been dead a hoary beard in silver seemed some seventy winters old ;A palmers amice wrapi)ed him round,. With a wrought Spanish baldric bound,Like a pilgrim from beyond the sea :His left hand held his Book of Might,A silver cross was in his right; The lamp was placed beside his and majestic was his which the fellest fiends had all unruffled was his face :They trusted his soul had gotten grace. Often had William of Deloraine Rode through the battles bloody plain, And trampled down the warriors slain, And neither known remorse nor now remorse and awe he owned ;His breath came thick, his head swam round. When this strange scene of death he and unnerved he the priest prayed fervently and loud :With eyes averted praved he ;He might not endure the sight to seeOf the man he had loved so brotherlv. .And when the priest his death-prayer hadprayed, Thus unto Deloraine he said: Now, speed thee what thou hast to do, Or, warrior, we may dearly rue; VoK those thou mayst not look upon Are gatliering fast round the yawning stone! Then Delorai
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