 And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Onward they drive, in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 270by Walter Scott - 1857Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 lehte
...How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe !'...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — — ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel * cows the game ! They come as fleet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 lehte
...How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe !'...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelFd low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — — ' We'll... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 458 lehte
...How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe !'...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay 1evell'd low ; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — — '... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 lehte
...chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? —' Down, down,' cried Mar,' your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe !'...tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown —' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel * cows the game! They come as fleet as forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 lehte
...How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearsmen's twilight wood ? — " Down, down," cried Mar, " your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe !"...shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide — " We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel* cows the game ! They come as fleet as forest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 lehte
...rooted place, The spenrmen's twilight wood? — * Down, down,' cried Slar, 'your lances down ! Bear buck both friend and foe!' Like reeds before the tempest's...levell'd low; And closely shouldering side to side, "ill- bristling ranks the onset bide. — ' We '11 (jucll the satage mountaineer, As their Tinehel... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 280 lehte
...its rooted place, The spearsmen's twilight wood? — ' Down, down.' cried JVlar,' your lances downr. Bear back both friend and foe !' Like reeds before...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide.— — ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel* cows the game ! They come as Meet as forest... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 lehte
...chase How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearsman's twilight wood ? " Down, down," cried Mar, "your lances down! Bear back both friend and foe !"...frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay leveled low ; And closely shouldering side to side The bristling ranks the onset bide. " We'll quell... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 380 lehte
...it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lauces down ! Bear back both friend and foe !' Like reeds...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — THE GUARD-ROOM. — ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel* cows the game ! They... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 394 lehte
...twilight wood? — ' Down, down,' cried Mar, ' your lances down 1 Bear back both friend and foe 1' Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried...side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide. — — ' We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their Tinchel* cows the game! They come as fleet as... | |
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