. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. Were both, he said, in captive hold. —But here the lay made sudden stand,The harp escaped the Minstrels hand !Oft had he stolen a glance, to spyHow Roderick brooked his minstrelsy :At first, the Chieftain, to the chime,With lifted hand kept feeble time ;That motion ceased, — yet feeling strongVaried his look as changed the song;At length, no more his deafened earThe minstrel melody can hear;His face grows sharp, — his hands are if some pang his heart-strings wrenched;Set are his teeth, his f

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. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. Were both, he said, in captive hold. —But here the lay made sudden stand,The harp escaped the Minstrels hand !Oft had he stolen a glance, to spyHow Roderick brooked his minstrelsy :At first, the Chieftain, to the chime,With lifted hand kept feeble time ;That motion ceased, — yet feeling strongVaried his look as changed the song;At length, no more his deafened earThe minstrel melody can hear;His face grows sharp, — his hands are if some pang his heart-strings wrenched;Set are his teeth, his fading eyeIs sternly fixed on vacancy;Thus, motionless and moanless, drewHis parting breath stout Roderick Dhu ! —Old Allan-bane looked on aghast,While grim and still his spirit passed;But when he saw that life was poured his wailing oer the dead. XXII. ILament. And art thou cold and lowly laid,Thy foemans dread, thy peoples aid,Breadalbanes boast, Clan-Alpines shade !For thee shall none a requiem say ? — For thee, who loved the minstrels lay,For thee, of Bothwells hous

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