 I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 593edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Europe - 1881 - 364 pages
...than a hundred since ; but no crossing of the Rhine has been more triumphant or more impressive — " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." On the left bank of the river we pass the ruined castle of Schönberg, with its legend of the " Sieben... | |
 | English poetry - 1882 - 426 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array ! ' Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVL ' ' Their light-arm'd archers far and near, Survey'd the tangled ground ; Their centre ranks,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! . Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | Charles Grahame Halpine - 1882 - 156 pages
...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far, To hero bound for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array." —SCOTI. IT was scarce eight o'clock in the morning as the party crested the hill, and a bright unclouded... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array ! ' Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 pages
...winding far! To hero boune for battle strife, Or bard of martial lay, Jt ' 278 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array l 16. "Their light -armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 pages
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1885 - 988 pages
...Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding furl To hero, bound for battle strife Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! Their light-armed archers far and near, Surveyed the tangled ground, Their center ranks, with pike... | |
 | Walter Scott, William Sharp - 1886 - 368 pages
...Saxon war That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array I " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'! the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike... | |
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