The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Complete in One Volume; With All His Introductions and Notes, Also Various Readings, and the Editor's No (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...was hush'd, That answer'd to the knell; For long and far the unwonted sound, Eddying in echoes round and round, Was toss'd from fell to fell; And Glaramara answer flung, And Grisdale-pike responsive rung, And Legbert heights their echoes swung, As far as Dcrwent's dell. VIII. Forth upon trackless darkness gazed The Knight, bedeafen'd and amazed, Till all was hush'd and still, Save the swoln torrent's sullen roar, And the night-blast that wildly bore Its course along the hill. Then on the northern sky there came A light, as of reflected flame, And over Legbert-head, As if by magic art controll'd, A mighty meteor slowly roll'd Its orb of fiery red; Thou wouldst have thought some demon dire Came mounted on that car of fire, To do his errant dread. Far on the sloping valley's course, On thicket, rock, and torrent hoarse, Shingle and Scrae, a and Fell and Force, A dusky light arose: Display'd, yet alter'd was the scene; Dark rock, and brook of silver sheen, Even the gay thicket's summer green, In bloody tincture glows. IX. De Vaux had mark'd the sunbeams set, At eve, upon the coronet Of that enchanted mound, And seen but crags at random flung, That, o'er the brawling torrent hung,5 In desolation frown'd. What sees he by that meteor's lour t--A banner'd Castle, keep, and tower, Return the lurid gleam, MS. "niingled sounds were hush'd.' "The rock, like something starting from a sleep. Took up the lady's voice, and laugh'd a-ai.; That ancient Woman seated n liekn.Crag Was ready with her cavern; llammar Scar, And the tall steep of Silver-How, sent forth A noise of laughter; southern Loughrigg he.ird, And Fairfield answer'd with a mountain toac; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice, --old Skiddaw blew Bis...