Marmion, by Sir W. Scott. with All His Intrs., and the Editor's Notes. Illustr. by B. Foster and J. Gilbert (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: KEY. JOHN MARRIOTT, A. M.' Ahhectiel, Ettbick Fobeht. The scenes are desert now and bare, Where flourish' d once a forest lair,2 When these waste glens with copKe were lined, And peopled with the hart and hind. Yon Thorn -- perchance whose prickly spears Have fenced him for three hundred years, While fell around his green compeers -- i See a Xotc to the Bonler Ulliistrelxy. vol. iv. p. 375. 2 Sec Api, vmlix. Note V. Yon lonely Thorn, would he could tell The changes of his parent dell. Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough; Would he could tell how deep the shade A thousand mingled branches made; How broad the shadows of the oak, How clung the rowan' to the rock, And through the foliage show'd his head, With narrow leaves and berries red; What pines on every mountain sprung, O'er every dell what birches hung, In every bree/e what aspeus shook, What alders shaded every brook " Here, in my shade," methinks he'd say, " The mighty stag at noon-tide lay: The wolf I've seen, a fiercer game, (The neighbouring dingle bears his name, ) With lurching step around me prowl, And stop, agaiust the moon to howl; The mountain-boar, on battle set, His tusks upon my stem would whet; While doe, and roe, and red-deer good, Have bounded by, through gay green-wood. Then oft, from Newark's riven tower, Sallied the Scottish monarch's power: A thousand vassals muster'd round, With horse, and hawk, and horn, and hound; i Mountain-nah. And I might see the youth intent, Gnard every pass with crossbow bent; And through the ...