 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 314 pages
...lightly bounded to the laud The messenger of blood and brand. — 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... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...— 0 ! need I tell that passion's name ? A HIGHLAND GATHERING. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1874 - 388 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 pourM each hardy tenant down. Nor slack'd the messenger his pace ; He show'd the sign, he named the... | |
 | 1876 - 649 pages
...the country, and wherever it was seen the men rose to arms — ' Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise ; From winding glen, from upland brown, They poured each hardy tcnant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace ; He showed the sign, he named the place, And pressing... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamour and surprise behind. : F x 6 ; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swathe his sithe ; The herds without a... | |
 | Religion - 1879 - 540 pages
...the rapid passage of the Fiery Cross in 'Vich Alpine's summons to his clan,' at the sight of which ' The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand, With changed cheer the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swathe his scythe ; The herds without a keeper... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 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 slack'd the messenger his pace : He show'd the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pages
...and warrior deed, Are in thy course— Speed, Malise, speed I xiT. 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 like... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 280 pages
...dove, Her notes of peace, and rest, and love. Cfje JTterp Cro00. 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... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Potomac - United States - 1878 - 702 pages
...North says, describing the magic effect of the " Fiery Cross : " " 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... | |
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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... 
