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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This dread expression was not miss'd
By the eye of his antagonist,
Who, without wooing strength or breath,
Rushed in for victory or death.
But Eric still withstood his shock;
He fought, a tower, a strength, a rock,
That ne'er had bowed unto the blast,
And knew no yielding till the last.
By the eye of his antagonist,
Who, without wooing strength or breath,
Rushed in for victory or death.
But Eric still withstood his shock;
He fought, a tower, a strength, a rock,
That ne'er had bowed unto the blast,
And knew no yielding till the last.
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