...E are going to discourse a while of castles. Ours are not castles which can boast of such things as The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls, where in bloody, medieval days, Above the gloomy portal arch, Timing his footsteps to a march, The...

...Marmion made it when he opened the first canon of Scott's poem — "Day set on Norham's castle steep And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow luster shone." There is but a fragment of that castle remaining, and this, familiar...

...oppresses us nor distracts us in our enjoyment of the complete effect. " Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd...

...effect." 1 " Scottish Literature," by G. Gregory Smith. Macmillan. Day set on Norham's castled steep And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd...

...knightly tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIRST. The Castle. I. Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and •deep, And Cheviot's...the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives 5 weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets...

...of Albion's elder day. 1 William Rufui. CANTO FIRST THE CASTLE DAY set on Norham's castled steep,1 And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep,1 The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre...

...16. CANTO FIRST THE CASTLE DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and dqep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers,...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed...

...other edifice* enclosed within an outward wall of great circuit J DAT set on Norhom's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed...

...invented. His description of Norham Castle on the border is used by Tamworth in its local guide. . . . battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking towers that round it sweep. Tamworth had the usual visits of royalty, played its role in the Barons'...

...somewhat misquotes Marmion's opening lines, which actually read: "Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone." Bronte substitutes "massive towers" for "battled towers" in line 4,...