. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. ion cold, the faithless, and the dead;As warm each hand, each brow as if they parted doubt distracts him at the view^, —O were his senses false or true?Dreamed he of death or broken vow,Or is it all a vision now ? At length, with Ellen in a grove He seemed to walk and speak of love ; She listened with a blush and sigh. His suit was warm, his hopes were high. He sought her yielded hand to clasp. And a cold gauntlet met his grasp : The phantoms sex was changed and gone. Upon i
. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. ion cold, the faithless, and the dead;As warm each hand, each brow as if they parted doubt distracts him at the view^, —O were his senses false or true?Dreamed he of death or broken vow,Or is it all a vision now ? At length, with Ellen in a grove He seemed to walk and speak of love ; She listened with a blush and sigh. His suit was warm, his hopes were high. He sought her yielded hand to clasp. And a cold gauntlet met his grasp : The phantoms sex was changed and gone. Upon its head a helmet shone ; Slowly enlarged to giant size. With darkened cheek and threatening grisly visage, stern and Ellen still a likeness bore. —He woke, and, panting with affright,Recalled the vision of the hearths decaying brands were red,And deep and dusky lustre showing, half concealing, allThe uncouth trophies of the those the stranger fixed his eyeWhere that huge falchion hung on high,And thoughts on thoughts, a countless throng,. i68 SCOTTS POETICAL WORKS.
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