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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Clash went the swords, the bucklers clash'd,
And 'gainst each other soon were dash'd;
But short the strife, ere Allan Bane
Lay stunn'd upon the slippery plain,
Bereft of buckler and of brand,
But without wound from Eric's hand.
He was no more in Eric's clasp
Than leopard in the lion's grasp.
And 'gainst each other soon were dash'd;
But short the strife, ere Allan Bane
Lay stunn'd upon the slippery plain,
Bereft of buckler and of brand,
But without wound from Eric's hand.
He was no more in Eric's clasp
Than leopard in the lion's grasp.
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