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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The battle spread from cliff to shore,
Along the fields, where late before
The Danes and Norse the battle won
That drove the Scots from Beregon:
This day that order was reversed,
The invader's closest files were pierced,
And foot by foot forced to give way;
Till, at the to-fall of the day,
Their speed of foot they 'gan to try
Within the city gates to fly:
They wanted Eric in their van,
Which brave MacUiston overran.
Along the fields, where late before
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That drove the Scots from Beregon:
This day that order was reversed,
The invader's closest files were pierced,
And foot by foot forced to give way;
Till, at the to-fall of the day,
Their speed of foot they 'gan to try
Within the city gates to fly:
They wanted Eric in their van,
Which brave MacUiston overran.
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