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The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale James Hogg,Meiko O'Halloran,Janette Currie No preview available - 2005 |
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abbot auld bard BARD'S SONG bend beneath blood bosom bower brand brave breast breeze bride cheek claymore dark deep Douglas dread dream Dryhope towers Dumlanrig Dunedin eternally weep Ettrick fair fairy fell fled flew flocks flower forest frae gallant ganza Gilmanscleuch glen glowing gray green green-wood hall harp hast heard heart heath heaved heaven Highland hill Holyrood honours Kilmeny kiss the lips knew lady lonely looked Lord Darcie Lord Pringle loud lyre maid maiden Mary Scott Mary's midnight minstrel moon morning mountain ne'er never night o'er Old David Owen's pale Queen ride rill rose round rung Scotland Scottish seen silver sing sleep smile soul Southrons spirits stern stood strain sung sweet sword tale tear thee thine thou throne Torwoodlee Tushilaw Twas vale wake warriors wave weened wild wind womyne wonderous wood young youth
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Page 131 - They lifted Kilmeny, they led her away, And she walked in the light of a sunless day ; The sky was a dome of crystal bright, The fountain of vision, and fountain of light ; The emerald fields were of dazzling glow, And the flowers of everlasting blow. Then deep in the stream her body they laid, That her youth and beauty...
Page 131 - The loved of heaven, the spirits' care, That all whose minds unmeled remain Shall bloom in beauty when time is gane. . With distant music, soft and deep, They lulled Kilmeny sound asleep; And when she awakened, she lay her lane, All happed with flowers in the green-wood wene. When seven...
Page 131 - The corby left her houf in the rock ; The blackbird alang wi' the eagle flew ; The hind came tripping o'er the dew ; The wolf and the kid their raike began, And the tod, and the lamb, and the leveret ran ; The hawk and the hern attour them hung, And the...
Page 131 - All striped wi' the bars of the rainbow's rim ; And lovely beings round were rife, Who erst had travelled mortal life ; And aye they smiled, and 'gan to...
Page 131 - Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face; As still was her look, and as still was her ee, As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea, Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.
Page 131 - And goved around, charmed and amazed; Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed, And murmured and looked with anxious pain For something the mystery to explain. The buzzard came with the throstle-cock; The corby left her houf in the rock; The blackbird alang wi...
Page 130 - The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain, Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane ; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin...
Page 223 - O could the bard I loved so long, Reprove my fond aspiring song ! Or could his tongue of candour say, That I should throw my harp away ! Just when her notes began with skill To sound beneath the southern hill, And twine around my bosom's core, How could we part for evermore ! 'Twas kindness all, I cannot blame, For bootless is the minstrel flame ; But sure a bard might well have known Another's feelings by his own...
Page 131 - The eagle sought her eiry again ; But lang may she cower in her bloody nest, And lang, lang sleek her wounded breast, Before she sey another flight, To play wi
Page 131 - And keeped afar frae the haunts of men ; Her holy hymns unheard to sing, To suck the flowers, and drink the spring But wherever her peaceful form appeared, The wild beasts of the hill were cheered ; The wolf played...