The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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Again the frenzied song of war
On the night breeze was borne afar,
Till, on the dark and gelid rock,
The drowsy cormorant awoke,
And, moved by wonder and dismay,
Scream'd out in concert with the lay.
Some sentinels that hovered nigh,
On the north cliff of Valon-Righ,
Descended softly to the plain,
And overheard the closing strain;
And thus it ran, the roundelay,
As near as Scottish tongue could say:—
On the night breeze was borne afar,
Till, on the dark and gelid rock,
The drowsy cormorant awoke,
And, moved by wonder and dismay,
Scream'd out in concert with the lay.
Some sentinels that hovered nigh,
On the north cliff of Valon-Righ,
Descended softly to the plain,
And overheard the closing strain;
And thus it ran, the roundelay,
As near as Scottish tongue could say:—
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