 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...warrior deed, Are in thy course — speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; Ho show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | George Trevor - 1849 - 328 pages
...gone like the Fiery Cross described in the ' Lady of the Lake : ' — " Fast as the symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise : From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down ; Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...death, and warrior deed Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace ; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...warrior deed, Are in tny course — speed, Malise, speed ! xrv. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | Christian Henry Bateman - 1856 - 112 pages
...fiery cross, and away ! without waiting for farewells. And then, " Fast as the fatal symbol fliea ]n arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They ponred each hardy tenant down, Nor slacked the messenger his pare, He showed the sign , he named the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...warrior deed, Are in thy course — speed, Malise, speed 1 XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slaek'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1855 - 734 pages
...Highlands, and is thus stated by Sir Walter iu the poem itself: — ' Fast as the fated symbol flies, In bove the bottom of the ravine, about sixty feet The bottom is rock, co Then pour'd each hardy tenant down, Nor slack'd the messenger his pace : He show'd the sign, he named... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...and warrior deed, Are in thy course — Speed, Malise, speed ! 14 Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen,...upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace ; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...warrior deed, Are in thy course — speed, Malise, speed ! XIV. Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They pour'd each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | Benjamin Homer Hall - Vermont - 1858 - 830 pages
...impending war — was borne from village to village, so now, at the approach of the courier — " In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen,...They poured each hardy tenant down. • ***•• The swarthy smith took dirk and brand ; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swathe... | |
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The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the... 
