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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When Haco first met eye to eye
With the impetuous Lord of Skye,
One thought alone possess'd the host;
Even Eric deem'd his nephew lost,
And only kept proud Mar at bay,
To watch the issue of the day.
Haco strode up with giddy pace,
And shook his brand in Donald's face.
The day had shortly been, forsooth,
If such a fair and flexile youth
Had shook a gilded sword or spear
At that imperious islander—
Heavens! how the tempest's howling breath
Had heighten'd been by Donald's wrath;
Whereas he now to battle fared,
As if he neither saw nor heard.
With the impetuous Lord of Skye,
One thought alone possess'd the host;
Even Eric deem'd his nephew lost,
And only kept proud Mar at bay,
To watch the issue of the day.
Haco strode up with giddy pace,
And shook his brand in Donald's face.
The day had shortly been, forsooth,
If such a fair and flexile youth
Had shook a gilded sword or spear
At that imperious islander—
Heavens! how the tempest's howling breath
Had heighten'd been by Donald's wrath;
Whereas he now to battle fared,
As if he neither saw nor heard.
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