The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . Thundered the cannon from the wall, And shook the Scottish shore :Around the castle eddied slowVolumes of smoke as white as snow And hid its turrets hoar,Till they rolled forth upon the air,And met the river breezes there,Which gave again the prospect fair. 74 SCOTTS POETICAL Ill iir m i 0 n. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO THE REV. JOHN MARRIOT, Ashcstiel, Ettrick Forest. The scenes are desert now and bare,Where flourished once a forest fair,When these waste glens with copse were lined,And
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . Thundered the cannon from the wall, And shook the Scottish shore :Around the castle eddied slowVolumes of smoke as white as snow And hid its turrets hoar,Till they rolled forth upon the air,And met the river breezes there,Which gave again the prospect fair. 74 SCOTTS POETICAL Ill iir m i 0 n. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO THE REV. JOHN MARRIOT, Ashcstiel, Ettrick Forest. The scenes are desert now and bare,Where flourished once a forest fair,When these waste glens with copse were lined,And peopled with the hart and thorn — perchance whose prickly spearsHave fenced him for three hundred years,While fell around his green compeers —Yon lonely thorn, would he could tellThe changes of his parent he, so gray and stubborn in each breeze a sapling bough !Would he could tell how deep the shadeA thousand mingled branches made ;How broad the shadows of the clung the rowan to the through the foliage showed his head,With narrow leaves and berries red ;What pines on every mountain sprung,Oer every dell what birches hung,In every breeze what aspens shook,What alders shaded every brook ! Here, in my shade, methinks he d say, The mighty stag at noontide lay :The wolf I ve seen, a fiercer game. —The neighboring ding
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